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Re: UDP packet/DNS server

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Rishaw)
Mon Sep 28 10:03:05 1998

In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95LJ1.1b4.980928143618.29334G-100000@thongvilay.giganet.net> from Tatsuya Kawasaki at "Sep 28, 98 02:40:04 pm"
To: tatsuya@giganet.net (Tatsuya Kawasaki)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:31:02 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: rforbes@microsoft.com, nanog@merit.edu
From: jamie@dilbert.ais.net (James Rishaw)
Reply-To: jamie@ais.net

Tatsuya Kawasaki wrote:
>xyz.com.   IN NS  that.host
>*.xyz.com  In NS  that.host

Gah!!

Illegal!

Never use "*" in DNS!  Just makes /bad things/ happen.

@	IN	SOA	xyz.com. hostmaster.xyz.com. (
		1998092801 3600 1800 3600000 7200)

	ns	ns1.xyz.com.
	ns	ns2.xyz.com.

	mx	0 mail.xyz.com.

mail	a	1.2.3.4
	mx	0 mail

.. etc ..

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