Odd policy question.

Martin Hannigan hannigan at world.std.com
Fri Jan 13 20:10:51 UTC 2006


> 
> 
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 08:32 -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > > Don't forget:
> > > www                IN             CNAME         goatse.cx
> > 
> > and don't forget the terminating dot on goatse.cx.
> > 
> > but this did cause me to update those trapper zone files and
> > bump the serials.  last time the serials had been bumped since
> > 1995.  so you had the suggestion of a decade.  mahalo.
> > 
> 
> 
> Ouch.  So you are going to punish the rest of the world for the mistakes
> of a few people (however annoying it is).
> 
> /me just cannot imagine explaining this to my mother when she mis-types
> some URL.


I'm not sure you realize how big this problem is. It's a nuisance
problem, like having cockroaches.

I heard something nasty about goatse.cx, but I checked www and I got:

The registrar name servers have not been configured properly

..and nothing bad. I do think it's better to put up the page
locally though.

> 
> Granted that what your (former-) customers did was not any sort of best
> practice, but I think your "solution" is a little too extreme.


Wow. I wish I was seeing what you are seeing. Is it good?

-M<



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