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To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
cc: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>, Ed Warnicke <eaw@cisco.com>, Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com>, <dnsop@cafax.se>
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:44:24 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302281636110.21660-100000@netcore.fi>
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: Request for review of DNS related draft

Not to mention that it would be quite useful to smurfers.

		--Dean

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Pekka Savola wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Robert Elz wrote:
> [...]
> > Why would my nodes care what the network that contains some random IP
> > address might happen to be (or why would I ever care more than the
> > routing tables will tell me) ?
>
> Being able to do something like this would have quite a few security
> considerations, besides -- in addition to operational reluctance to take
> it to use.
>
> Finding your *own* info could be useful, but you really need most of that
> information before you can make the DNS query..
>
> --
> Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
> Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
> Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
>
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