To:
Akira Kato <kato@wide.ad.jp>
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From:
"Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
Date:
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:39:45 -0600
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Subject:
Re: "local" zones
on 2/24/2003 11:59 PM Akira Kato wrote: > Operational Guidelines for "local" zones in the DNS > draft-kato-dnsop-local-zones-00.txt This draft is admirable for its objective, but is missing the single largest piece of good advice, which is to use real friggin domain names from delegated space instead of making up your own. Could that be added? Something to the affect of ~"if you want a locally resolvable, private domain, use local.<company>.<your-isp> so that leakage is limited, but so that the namespace authority model continues to function." For those who would argue in favor of a reusable private-space TLD, I will reiterate the point that this kind of approach simply reintroduces the same kinds of problems we already have with NAT (leakage, collisions when merging networks, etc.). It was a bad idea for the IP crunch, it's a bad idea for DNS for almost the exact same reasons, but with the key difference that there is no shortage of domain names. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/ #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.