[119307] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Fri Nov 13 01:18:06 2009
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:17:22 -0900
In-Reply-To: <g3hbszjie3.fsf@nsa.vix.com>
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@gci.com>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Well,=20
If it counts Paul, thanks for vixie cron. ;)
=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Vixie [mailto:vixie@isc.org]=20
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:58 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: What DNS Is Not
"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes:
> I find it mildly amusing that my first contact with Paul was about 25=20
> years ago when he was at DEC and I objected to his use of a wildcard=20
> for dec.com.
I was only an egg.
> The situations are not parallel and the Internet was a very different=20
> animal in those days (and DEC was mostly DECnet), but still I managed=20
> 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
