[4238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root Nameserver IPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zachary DeAquila)
Mon Sep 9 18:40:35 1996
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Sep 1996 22:02:04 BST."
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Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 17:33:18 -0500
From: Zachary DeAquila <zachary@zachs.place.org>
On Monday, Sep 9, 1996, Nick Hilliard writes:
>> How about allocating some "good sounding" IP addresses for them,
>> (like 1.0.0.x/32) and hard-wiring them into resolver code? Would
>> save quite a lot of configuration headaches for newbies.
>
>Hardwiring anything like this into a system like DNS sounds like a really
>bad idea if only for the simple reason that DNS is not just used on the
>Internet, but also within private networks. Having hardwiring IP numbers in
>this case would cause headaches of unimaginable proportions.
>
>Nick
Good point. So make sure there's a way to override the hardwired defaults,
is all... Anyone setting up a private network with private resolvers, etc,
will be clueful enough to know to include --rootserverfile named.root
on the command line...
--Zachayr
