ietf-nntp DNS (was: Commetns on draft-15.pdf)

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> P62. S14.4 (DNS)
> Do we want to add somewhere something like:
> 	"The NNTP implementation SHOULD make the IP address of the domain
> 	name of the client available to the server, so as to establish the
> 	source of articles arriving via the POST and IHAVE commands".

I think that's discussion of internal implementation details, which is out
of scope for a protocol description.

> There is wording in USEFOR (Path verification) which implies that NNTP
> implementations ought to be doing this.

So servers that want to comply with USEFOR will find a way to provide that
information.  This standard doesn't assume or require USEFOR (thank God).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>