[1198] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Who wasn't at IETF.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Schlitt)
Mon Aug 19 10:22:32 1991
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 91 10:18:33 -0400
From: Dan Schlitt <dan@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com, tal@warren.mentorg.com
Someone (Erik Fair) said:
> DNS consistency is a very big problem, and there are no tools or
> operational procedures that I know of (aside from the RoboDoc) that
> attempt to insure consistency throughout the system. I'm sure that
> there are at least a dozen other hostmasters who feel as I do (and I'm
> sure that they have just as much free time for such a project as I do -
> that is, zero). Maybe there's a thesis in it, hey?
And Tom Limoncelli -- tal@Warren.MentorG.Com replied:
:With all that, there's still that 1% of me that wishes that a RoboDoc
:was running to tell me anything I've done wrong. Heck, something like
:COPS (automated, mails me a report when done), would even be great!
The source for doc (and dig) used to be freely available. Did the
politics remove it along with RoboDoc? What is to keep one from
running doc for the domains one manages? I run it from cron a couple
of nights a week with the reports mailed to me. Even if the data is
ok I learn things like the fact that my off site secondary server is
down.
Why wait for someone else to do something on a grand scale when you
can do it for the part of the world where you can fix things yourself.
(And don't forget those pesky in-addr.arpa bits while you are
checking.)
/dan
