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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