[63402] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Oct 4 12:24:57 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 04 Oct 2003 16:24:18 +0000
In-Reply-To: <200310041529.h94FTjt29078@karoshi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > 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?
that was the basis of the enhanced version of the feature, which is spelled
"root-delegation-only". non-delegation data in root or toplevel domains is
possibly useful (like www.$TLD) but not necessary (an NS can be put in to
achieve the same effect with an extra "hop".)
> 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.
"and remember, kids, all power tools can kill."
--
Paul Vixie
