On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Nick Hilliard wrote: | Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 22:02:04 +0100 (BST) | From: Nick Hilliard <nick@eunet.ie> | To: nanog@merit.edu | Cc: namedroppers@internic.net | Subject: Re: The SWAMP | Resent-Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 17:12:00 -0400 (EDT) | Resent-From: randy@internic.net (Randy Bush) | Resent-To: namedroppers <namedroppers@internic.net> | | > How about allocating some "good sounding" IP addresses for them, | > (like 1.0.0.x/32) and hard-wiring them into resolver code? Would | > save quite a lot of configuration headaches for newbies. | | Hardwiring anything like this into a system like DNS sounds like a really | bad idea if only for the simple reason that DNS is not just used on the | Internet, but also within private networks. Having hardwiring IP numbers in | this case would cause headaches of unimaginable proportions. | I'm ambivalent on this. I think hardwiring the addresses is a good thing, but a configuration flag should be provided to override the hardwired addresses (this may simply be the existance of a 'cache' statement, or something more explicit). The real problem will be in re-education (or rather educating) all those DNS admins out there who don't even know they are DNS admin :-) regards | Nick | Mathias Koerber | Tel: +65 / 471 9820 | mathias@staff.singnet.com.sg SingNet NOC | Fax: +65 / 475 3273 | mathias@koerber.org Q'town Tel. Exch. | PGP: Keyid: 768/25E082BD, finger mathias@singnet.com.sg 2 Stirling Rd | 1A 8B FC D4 93 F1 9A FC BD 98 A3 1A 0E 73 01 65 S'pore 148943 | Disclaimer: I speak only for myself * Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft *