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Re: NSI policy on lame delagations

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jmalcolm@uraeus.com)
Mon Nov 23 23:24:37 1998

From: jmalcolm@uraeus.com
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:02:52 -0500 (EST)
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199811230753.XAA18715@bb.rc.vix.com>

Paul A Vixie writes:
>If your DNS is not part of an infrastructure data management system, then
>that is a true statement.  However, many larger sites integrate their DNS
>with their existing database systems so that there can be a single source
>of authentic data for the Entreprise.  At this moment, they have to do this
>by exporting their zones into text files that BIND can read.  Suboptimal.

Yet having the advantage that when your SQL- or other-based database
fails, your nameservers don't.


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