[119205] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Buhrmaster, Gary)
Mon Nov 9 19:56:14 2009
From: "Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb@slac.stanford.edu>
To: "'bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com'" <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>,
"Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:52:35 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20091110003221.GC25626@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
> [mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:32 PM
> To: Patrick W. Gilmore
> Cc: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: What DNS Is Not
...
> notbeing Paul, its rude of me to respond - yet you posted this
> to a public list ... so here goes.
>=20
> Why do you find your behaviour in your domains acceptable and yet
> the same behaviour in others zones to be "a Bad Thing" and should be
> stopped?
Ok, devils advocate argument. =20
Is there is a difference between being a domain "owner"
(Patrick wanting to wildcard the domain he has paid for),
and a domain "custodian" (Verisign for the .com example)
in whether wildcards are ever acceptable in the DNS
responses you provide?
