Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?

Rob Payne rnspayne at the-paynes.com
Sat Oct 4 14:39:33 UTC 2003


On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:48:52PM +0200, Piotr KUCHARSKI wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:34:07PM -0700, bmanning at karoshi.com wrote:
> > 	ask yourself how many DNS admins are going to go pull out
> > 	the "-delegation" stanzas from their configs?  Or that
> > 	will use them to lie about other delegations that use wildcards
> > 	as long as that code is still available?  ...  
> 
> And what possible problems are you expecting with leaving
> zone "com" { type delegation-only; };
> zone "net" { type delegation-only; };
> in the configuration?
> 
> They should be delegation-only in any case, shouldn't they?

At some point in the future you might think back on this as someone
who said, "What possible problems would there be in hard-coding this
list of bogon filters?  69.0.0.0/8 should be reserved, shouldn't it?"

				 -rob
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