[4239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The SWAMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Mon Sep 9 18:47:28 1996
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 15:40:38 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu, nick@eunet.ie
Cc: namedroppers@internic.net
Nick Hilliard <nick@eunet.ie> wrote:
> 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.
Er. This is _root zone_. You either have access to it, or not.
Those are completely separated name spaces. If you have an intranet
you may want to have internal routes for local roots. A *lot* less
headache when all namseservers on all machines work out-of-box without
system administrator running in circles changing addresses.
Anyway, i would rather have an override for root NS addresses, instead of
required configuration. How many root caches out there are configured with all
correct addresses? My estimate is below 20%.
--vadim
PS. Thanks to those who pointed that it is not resolver but rather cacheing NS.
