[119306] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Thu Nov 12 20:58:42 2009
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:57:56 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20091109234713.7849F1CC2E@ptavv.es.net> (Kevin Oberman's message
of "Mon\, 09 Nov 2009 15\:47\:13 -0800")
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes:
> I find it mildly amusing that my first contact with Paul was about 25
> years ago when he was at DEC and I objected to his use of a wildcard for
> dec.com.
I was only an egg.
> The situations are not parallel and the Internet was a very different
> animal in those days (and DEC was mostly DECnet), but still I managed to
> maintain a full set of MX records for all of our DECnet systems.
Based partly on my conversation with you, I ended up pulling over the
list of DECnet nodes and generating MX's for each one, just to remove
that wildcard. You were right, and I listened. Probably I forgot to
thank you until now. Thanks.
--
Paul Vixie
KI6YSY
