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Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:08:01 -0400
On Jul 13, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Simon Waters wrote:
Most of those I know try to deploy recursive services as close as possible tothe client, avoiding where possible alternative views of the DNS, and forwarding.
Would that everyone did what the people you know do.Unfortunately, there are a few providers doing things like outsourcing their recursive service to, say, their upstream, or having one "node" of recursive servers anywhere in the world for all their end users. These providers violate the first part of your sentence.
The second part doesn't make any sense to me. It seems that having multiple, geographically disparate recursive name servers would be more likely to present an "alternative [view] of the DNS". (In fact, I can prove that's true in at least some cases. :) So you are actually arguing -against- your first point.
That said, no one has yet said why it is necessary, or even desirable, to have a completely homogenous view of the world.
Perhaps time to ask Brad, Paul and Cricket what they think, and have answersto their comments.
Perhaps. However, in the last DNS related thread, Paul made a pretty strong claim (violating a protocol) and showed exactly _ZERO_ facts to back it up, despite being asked at least five times (by my count).
With automated responses to "bad things", it is usually best to minimise the scope of the change. Similarly typo correction makes sense for URLs, but not for most other uses of the DNS (hence the proviso you make to switch it off if you use RBL, although I'd say switch it off for all email servers less you start correcting spambot crud, our email servers make a DNS check on thesenders domain, that doesn't want correcting either), so the answer isprobably browser plug-in (although most browsers already try to guess whatyou meant to some extent).
Perhaps something as simple as a preference only 'correcting' queries that begin with "www"?
-- TTFN, patrick
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- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel..., (continued)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Steve Sobol (Jul 10)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jul 11)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... David Ulevitch (Jul 11)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Peter Dambier (Jul 11)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 11)
- RE: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Daniel Golding (Jul 11)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Simon Waters (Jul 12)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 12)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... David Ulevitch (Jul 12)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Simon Waters (Jul 13)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 13)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Chris Woodfield (Jul 13)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 13)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 13)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Larry Smith (Jul 13)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Mark Jeftovic (Jul 13)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 13)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Joe Greco (Jul 13)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... John Payne (Jul 13)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Joe Greco (Jul 13)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Barry Shein (Jul 13)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jul 11)
- Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel... Steve Sobol (Jul 10)