To:
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:
Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Date:
Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:28:47 +0200
In-Reply-To:
<E19AD2v-00041p-W9@roam.psg.com>
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-serverid-01.txt
At 11:08 AM -0700 2003/04/28, Randy Bush wrote:
> my experience in managing servers is that they have a unique
> unicast ip address. even the anycast ones do so that they can be
> managed, transfer zones, ...
True, but if you have multiple server processes per IP address,
or perhaps multiple IP addresses with different "views" assigned to
each?
> i don't care. they deserve the hell into which they consigned
> themselves.
Problem is, they're now inflicting this hell on the rest of the
Internet, and we also have to live with this problem. It would be
nice if we could give them some method to help make this easier.
> so cat the pid or something similarly disgusting.
Neither IP address nor pid will necessarily survive restarting
the program, rebooting the machine, etc.... This makes it impossible
to be able to determine which machine might have been broken when we
get a claim at some time in the future.
We need something that will be unique per server process (not per
machine), and will be persistent across program restarts, server
reboots, changes of IP address, etc....
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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