[87886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Odd policy question.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Jan 13 15:21:36 2006
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@world.std.com>
To: chrismcc@pricegrabber.com (Christopher McCrory)
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:10:51 -0500 (EST)
Cc: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1137181763.10460.34.camel@wednesday.pricegrabber.com> from "Christopher McCrory" at Jan 13, 2006 11:49:22 AM
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> 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.
> >
>
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> 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.
I'm not sure you realize how big this problem is. It's a nuisance
problem, like having cockroaches.
I heard something nasty about goatse.cx, but I checked www and I got:
The registrar name servers have not been configured properly
..and nothing bad. I do think it's better to put up the page
locally though.
>
> Granted that what your (former-) customers did was not any sort of best
> practice, but I think your "solution" is a little too extreme.
Wow. I wish I was seeing what you are seeing. Is it good?
-M<
