Beyond DNS...

Mon Jun 1 15:02:04 UTC 1998

On Monday, June 01, 1998 9:45 AM, Jared Mauch[SMTP:jared at puck.nether.net] wrote:
@On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 09:23:38AM -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
@> On Monday, June 01, 1998 4:18 AM, James Rishaw[SMTP:jamie at dilbert.ais.net] 
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@
@	Even *fewer* people understand how dns works, nor can configure
@it properly.  This is easy to tell, log lame delegations on your
@nameserver.  Or log the "invalid" hostnames stuff, folks with _/, etc..
@in their dns entries.
@

The DNS could be used for much more than it currently is configured
to handle. It is only a matter of time before people become better
educated about the general purpose nature of the system. Some
people think that A records can only contain 32 bit IP addresses
when in fact they are generic containers for objects of class, Integer.

Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - An H.323 GateKeeper for the IPv8 Network
http://www.unir.net
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