RE: www.worldnet.att.net Network not in table

["Michael Hallgren" <m.hallgren () free fr>]

> On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 03:32:39PM +0200, Michael Hallgren wrote:
> > > So far as I know, www.worldnet.att.net is intended to be
> reachable only
> > > from Worldnet dialups.  204.127.0.0/17 is not advertised to
> the Internet
> > > at large.  www.att.net is in 204.127.128.0/17 and is reachable from
> > > anywhere.
> >
> > If so is (which appears to be the case), for what reason is the
> > (global) DNS populated with corresponding data? Somewhat harmless,
> > but fairly easy to clean up (via, for example, DNS configuration
> > views) -- for making things more beautiful.
>
> I've never been a fan of split DNS views, because it makes assumptions
> about what DNS servers people are using.

OK. Right.

>  What if a worldnet customer,
> say, wants to run a recursive named on his own machine, and handle his
> own lookups?  Then he is, necessarily, going to get the "global" view
> all the time, even when he's dialed in to Worldnet.  So it makes sense
> for "only reachable from worldnet" stuff to be globally viewable.

OK. But I'd guess most people (like myself, from time to time) would rather
run a local one forwarding requests to a suitably close (my upstream's) one?
(Depends on who you are and how you connect, of course.)

> And what if you're connected to multiple "private" networks, each with
> their own DNS, at once?  Then you've got to pick which private names
> you want to see, and point at the appropriate DNS ...