[61423] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Re[2]: relays.osirusoft.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George William Herbert)
Thu Aug 28 16:17:03 2003
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: gherbert@gw.retro.com, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:13:49 -0700
From: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Paul wrote:
>this part, on the other hand...
>
>> he's put
>> *.*.*.* in, he's asking people not to use it anymore.
>
>...mystifies me. anyone who has read rfc1034 or rfc1035, even
>if they did not also read rfc2181 or rfc2136 or rfc2308, knows
>that in a zone containing the following wildcardish data:
>
> $ORIGIN example.vix.com.
> * 1H IN A 127.0.0.1
> *.* 1H IN A 127.0.0.2
> *.*.* 1H IN A 127.0.0.3
> *.*.*.* 1H IN A 127.0.0.4
>
>the result will be that only the top one will match:
I must hope and pray that nobody on NANOG would be foolish
enough to load narrative prose mailed to the list into their
BIND configurations ;-)
BGP, now, feel free to do that all you want.
-george william herbert
gherbert@retro.com
