[RFCI-Discuss] is a reversename a must ?

[Jeff Pang]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>
>Sent: Jan 22, 2008 4:04 AM
>To: rfci-discuss at lists.megacity.org
>Subject: Re: [RFCI-Discuss] is a reversename a must ?
>
>rfc 1912:
>
>2.1 Inconsistent, Missing, or Bad Data
>
>   Every Internet-reachable host should have a name.  The consequences
>   of this are becoming more and more obvious.  Many services available
>   on the Internet will not talk to you if you aren't correctly
>   registered in the DNS.
>
>it's should, even not SHOULD but it says so. It even means that others are
>not required to communicate with you if you don't have reverse DNS.
>

"Every Internet-reachable host should have a name". 
Yes I agree.But it's primarily an A record name, not meaning the PTR record name.Is it?

Regards,
Jeff Pang