What DNS Is Not
Paul Vixie
vixie at isc.org
Fri Nov 13 01:57:56 UTC 2009
"Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net> writes:
> I find it mildly amusing that my first contact with Paul was about 25
> years ago when he was at DEC and I objected to his use of a wildcard for
> dec.com.
I was only an egg.
> The situations are not parallel and the Internet was a very different
> animal in those days (and DEC was mostly DECnet), but still I managed to
> maintain a full set of MX records for all of our DECnet systems.
Based partly on my conversation with you, I ended up pulling over the
list of DECnet nodes and generating MX's for each one, just to remove
that wildcard. You were right, and I listened. Probably I forgot to
thank you until now. Thanks.
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Paul Vixie
KI6YSY
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