RP records

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Mon Jul 9 15:33:38 UTC 2001


In article <9iah3c$20t at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Brad Knowles  <brad.knowles at skynet.be> wrote:
>
>At 1:35 PM +0200 7/7/01, Marc C Storck wrote:
>
>>  You forgot or didn't read, that the question was "How common are RP records"
>
>	Simply pointing out that GraniteCanyon requires RP records and 
>that they host thousands of domains doesn't really mean anything. 
>They are still just one site.  They remain the only site I've ever 
>heard of that actually makes use of RP records.  That's not exactly a 
>ringing endorsement....

Who said they're endorsements?  I thought people were just listing
examples.

GC isn't the only public DNS service, although they're probably the most
famous (and infamous).  ISTM that RP records would be useful for any
similar service; they're essentially a poor-man's WHOIS.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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