on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:26:59AM +1030, Tom Wright wrote:
Don't be afraid to create zones for each location, DNS lends itself to this kind of hierarchy naturally.
I find this is tidier than lengthy A records.
I.e, hostname.location.domain
And yet makes it more difficult for anyone else to simply set aside ALL of your dynamics as offlimits using simple substrings (say, in sendmail's access.db or using postfix check_client_access). Don't be that guy.
Oh, yeah. You already are (quick! guess which of these are actually dynamic, and which static, who's residential, who's business, etc.): adsl.internode.on.net gaw.internode.on.net padsl.internode.on.net adsl.adelaide.on.net link.internode.on.net as0.adl2.internode.on.net lns1.adl2.internode.on.net lns2.adl2.internode.on.net lns3.adl2.internode.on.net lns4.adl2.internode.on.net lns11.adl2.internode.on.net lns5.adl2.internode.on.net lns1.adl4.internode.on.net lns2.adl4.internode.on.net lns3.adl4.internode.on.net lns10.adl6.internode.on.net lns1.bne1.internode.on.net lns2.bne1.internode.on.net lns1.bne4.internode.on.net lns2.bne4.internode.on.net lns1.cbr1.internode.on.net lns2.cbr1.internode.on.net lns1.hba1.internode.on.net lns1.mel4.internode.on.net lns2.mel4.internode.on.net lns3.mel4.internode.on.net lns4.mel4.internode.on.net lns1.mel6.internode.on.net lns2.mel6.internode.on.net lns4.mel6.internode.on.net lns1.per1.internode.on.net lns1.syd2.internode.on.net lns1.syd6.internode.on.net lns2.syd6.internode.on.net lns4.syd6.internode.on.net lns1.syd7.internode.on.net lns2.syd7.internode.on.net lns3.syd7.internode.on.net cor2.adl2.internode.on.net lns10.adl2.internode.on.net lns10.mel4.internode.on.net lns10.syd6.internode.on.net lns10.syd7.internode.on.net nsw.adsl.internode.on.net qld.adsl.internode.on.net qld.padsl.internode.on.net sa.adsl.internode.on.net tas.adsl.internode.on.net vic.adsl.internode.on.net wa.adsl.internode.on.net Oh, there's also 'static.internode.on.net', so the safe bet is to assume that ALL of the rest are dynamic. Correct bet? Who knows. -- hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2553 w: http://hesketh.com/ antispam news, solutions for sendmail, exim, postfix: http://enemieslist.com/