AW: Odd policy question.

["John van Oppen" <john () vanoppen com>]

Assuming that you are running separate authoritative and recursive servers this would only be a problem when someone 
goes to a lame-delegated domain.

It is probably also good to note that it is a best practice to separate authoritative and recursive servers.   
john


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Christopher McCrory [mailto:chrismcc () pricegrabber com] 
Gesendet: Friday, January 13, 2006 11:49 AM
An: Randy Bush
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Betreff: Re: Odd policy question.


On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 08:32 -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Don't forget:
> > www                IN             CNAME         goatse.cx
>
> and don't forget the terminating dot on goatse.cx.
>
> but this did cause me to update those trapper zone files and
> bump the serials.  last time the serials had been bumped since
> 1995.  so you had the suggestion of a decade.  mahalo.


Ouch.  So you are going to punish the rest of the world for the mistakes
of a few people (however annoying it is).

/me just cannot imagine explaining this to my mother when she mis-types
some URL.

Granted that what your (former-) customers did was not any sort of best
practice, but I think your "solution" is a little too extreme.



> randy
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