We have certain stakeholders who believe that the public IPs used by our workstations should have globally available DNS records, and that not having dns records would break some internet services. I've heard of this need in the past, but in this day and age do I still need to make dns records available to the world for our workstation IP address space?
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1I'm sorry... what?– MichelZJul 15, 2014 at 17:38
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10Well, the workstations will have a hard time sending out spam without them...– Michael HamptonJul 15, 2014 at 17:38
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4Your stakeholders are mistaken. You should to ask them to clarify their position so that you can address their specific concerns. What internet services do they think will break without having these "globally" available DNS records?– joeqwertyJul 15, 2014 at 17:43
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1There are services which do DNS lookups and reverse DNS lookups; email/SMTP services will for spam checks and they can dislike connections from addresses with no reverse DNS entries, SSH can for connections, and having a weak configuration will cause problems or slowness at logon. But presumably you relay email through a server you control. If your workstations have public IPs, surely you already know whether internet services are breaking ... because the things you are trying to do aren't working?– TessellatingHecklerJul 15, 2014 at 19:09
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I've answered this with a question of my own, because damned if it doesn't keep coming up in my own professional life.– Andrew BJul 16, 2014 at 0:23
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answered Jul 15, 2014 at 17:38
I don't know any obligatory to have DNS Records for public IP Addresses. I don't see the anything why this should be important.
