[63401] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Sat Oct 4 11:30:26 2003
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: chopin@sgh.waw.pl (Piotr KUCHARSKI)
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 08:29:45 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20031004134852.GA18494@sgh.waw.pl> from "Piotr KUCHARSKI" at Oct 04, 2003 03:48:52 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:34:07PM -0700, bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
> > ask yourself how many DNS admins are going to go pull out
> > the "-delegation" stanzas from their configs? Or that
> > will use them to lie about other delegations that use wildcards
> > as long as that code is still available? ...
>
> And what possible problems are you expecting with leaving
> zone "com" { type delegation-only; };
> zone "net" { type delegation-only; };
> in the configuration?
>
> They should be delegation-only in any case, shouldn't they?
well, thats up to the zone admin. :)
my concern is mostly along the lines of folks who will do things like:
zone "waw.pl" { type delegation-only; };
to random zones that they think -SHOULD- be delegation-only, regardless
of what the zone admin specifies.
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> p.
>
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