[87883] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Odd policy question.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher McCrory)
Fri Jan 13 14:49:51 2006
From: Christopher McCrory <chrismcc@pricegrabber.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <17351.62021.590200.555761@roam.psg.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:49:22 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 08:32 -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Don't forget:
> > www IN CNAME goatse.cx
>
> and don't forget the terminating dot on goatse.cx.
>
> but this did cause me to update those trapper zone files and
> bump the serials. last time the serials had been bumped since
> 1995. so you had the suggestion of a decade. mahalo.
>
Ouch. So you are going to punish the rest of the world for the mistakes
of a few people (however annoying it is).
/me just cannot imagine explaining this to my mother when she mis-types
some URL.
Granted that what your (former-) customers did was not any sort of best
practice, but I think your "solution" is a little too extreme.
> randy
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