IP address fee??

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Fri Sep 6 14:17:15 UTC 2002


At 3:40 PM +0200 2002/09/06, Peter van Dijk wrote:

>  in-addr.arpa is not special from a DNS point-of-view.

	Technically, you are correct.  However, this issue is as much 
about how the DNS has been used historically, and general agreed-upon 
principles by which the DNS should be used, as it is about how do you 
technically serve that information.


	If you have a nail and a hammer, there are ways of using the 
hammer to hit the nail that will be less productive than others (in 
terms of nailing some object to another).  If you choose to lay the 
nail flat on the top object and hit the side of the nail with the 
hammer, you're welcome to do so.

	However, if you do this, don't be surprised when it doesn't stick 
to second object very well.  Moreover, don't come complaining to me, 
or anyone else, who told you that this was stupid thing to do.

>>  	Bizarre.  Truly bizarre.  Somehow, I feel compelled to make some
>>  remark about "perverting the course of the DNS", or somesuch.
>
>  What am I doing wrong in this case? A zone is delegated, the
>  nameserver receiving the delegation serves this zone. No apexes
>  mismatch.

	For the most part, we only care about mis-uses and abuses of 
technical tools (like the DNS) to the degree that we can modify 
future versions of the programs that serve these protocols to refuse 
to function in this manner, thus preventing people from accidentally 
(or otherwise) doing these kinds of incredibly stupid things.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at 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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