To:
bill <bmanning@karoshi.com>
cc:
mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta), Alain.Durand@sun.com (Alain Durand), itojun@iijlab.net, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com>
Date:
Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:17:50 +0000
In-reply-to:
Your message of "Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:32:59 PST." <200311121532.hACFWxX00449@karoshi.com>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: well-known addresses / was DNS discovery
>>>>> "bill" == bill <bmanning@karoshi.com> writes: bill> Ohta-san, would you be comfortable with 200,000,000 bill> devices being shipped with the IP address 131.112.32.188 bill> (the address of one of your organizations nameservers) being bill> burned into eeprom? bill> Yes, I know we do it now and it reduces the level of bill> effort in getting new features deployed, but in -EVERY- bill> case, the use of well known addresses has caused problems. Like Netgear hard-wiring the address of a University of Wisconsin NTP server into the firmware of ther products. Every one of those boxes sends an NTP request once a second to that UoW server. See http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.