on Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:48:05AM -0500, Michael Holstein wrote:
Like many places, we run seperate internal and external DNS .. when a user requests a static IP, they can opt to make it "external", but few do, since we point out that when they do that, they loose the anonymity of the "generic" rDNS.
An internal DNS entry might look like : lastname-modelnumber.router.building.csuohio.edu While the external entry might look like : csu-137-148-19-3.csuohio.edu
At least at one point in 2003, you also used, eg finance137-148-212-227.dhcp.csuohio.edu [137.148.212.227] which kindly pointed out that the IP was dynamically assigned (or at least suggested it, I know DHCP can push statics, too). I have the pattern for the csu-n-n-n-n.csuohio.edu naming convention above marked as 'static/lan' - should I have this down as 'natproxy/unknown' instead? Or 'static/unknown'? Or 'static/wan'? I'm a bit confused by what it means to have an "internal" static public IP, I guess. Or are you saying that they have the option of making their chosen internal name also visible via external DNS lookups, with all IPs being public just not all visible via custom names to the outside? -- hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2553 w: http://hesketh.com/ antispam news and intelligence to help you stop spam: http://enemieslist.com/