[122570] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Feb 17 00:43:02 2010
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:42:26 -0800
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On 2010-02-16, at 20:35, Frank Bulk wrote:
> Our nameservers handle both the authoritative and recursive traffic,
As general advice, and as an aside, don't do that. (Aside from anything =
else, you're inserting authoritative answers in a lookup path that might =
not be found by a parent delegation, e.g. if you host a domain for =
someone who subsequently takes it elsewhere without telling you.)
> If I understand your second sentence correctly, then yes, our DHCP =
server
> hands out the DNS servers, of which one of the three is outside our =
own
> network.
Thanks for the counter-example.
Joe=
