[64030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: domainmonger.com with wildcard NS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Tue Oct 14 14:30:20 2003
To: just me <matt@snark.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: 14 Oct 2003 14:22:26 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33L0.0310141056490.24813-100000@pants.snark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
just me <matt@snark.net> writes:
> On 14 Oct 2003, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
>
> just me <matt@snark.net> writes:
>
> > In theory this doesnt break anything, since the nameservers in
> > question aren't providing recursive service to anyone. Any questions
> > they see are the result of a followed delegation. So I don't see why
> > this would cause problems anywhere.
>
> I'd sure hate to be the poor fellow having a zone being served from
> those nameservers when the inevitable configuration error causes the
> zone to get dropped on the floor (for instance an accidental removal
> from named.conf). NXDOMAIN or SERVFAIL sure beats a wildcard match
> going to the wrong place.
>
> I think (don't hold me to this, I might be wrong) the trick, when
> you're a registrar, is to not lose domains?
History demonstrates that registrars are human too.
---Rob
