[4246] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The SWAMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mathias Koerber)
Mon Sep 9 21:14:23 1996
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 09:13:27 +0800 (SST)
From: Mathias Koerber <mathias@staff.singnet.com.sg>
Reply-To: mathias@staff.singnet.com.sg
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@eunet.ie>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, namedroppers@internic.net,
Randy Bush <randy@internic.net>
In-Reply-To: <9609092202.aa23981@relay.ieunet.ie>
On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Nick Hilliard wrote:
| Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 22:02:04 +0100 (BST)
| From: Nick Hilliard <nick@eunet.ie>
| To: nanog@merit.edu
| Cc: namedroppers@internic.net
| Subject: Re: The SWAMP
| Resent-Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 17:12:00 -0400 (EDT)
| Resent-From: randy@internic.net (Randy Bush)
| Resent-To: namedroppers <namedroppers@internic.net>
|
| > 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.
|
I'm ambivalent on this. I think hardwiring the addresses is a good thing,
but a configuration flag should be provided to override the hardwired addresses
(this may simply be the existance of a 'cache' statement, or something
more explicit).
The real problem will be in re-education (or rather educating) all those DNS
admins out there who don't even know they are DNS admin :-)
regards
| Nick
|
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