Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?

bmanning at karoshi.com bmanning at karoshi.com
Sat Oct 4 15:29:45 UTC 2003


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> 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?

	well, thats up to the zone admin. :)
	my concern is mostly along the lines of folks who will do things like:

	zone "waw.pl" { type delegation-only; };

	to random zones that they think -SHOULD- be delegation-only, regardless
	of what the zone admin specifies.

	
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