[dns-operations] anybody here from GDNS?
Robert Edmonds
edmonds at gtisc.gatech.edu
Thu Jul 24 18:28:21 UTC 2008
Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Jul 15, 2008, at 8:42 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
> >while i generally agree, i know that burning IPv4 address space for
> >this
> >kind of functional separation isn't always possible and is
> >controversial
> >given the looming shortage. so until IPv6 somehow becomes
> >prevalent, i'm
> >recommending "views."
>
>
> My $EMPLOYER has the hardest line about IP allocation I've ever seen
> (because there's an extremist at the IP desk -- ie, ME!) Most ARIN
> members applaud my diligence to the philosophy but can't justify being
> as hardline with their customers. So trust me when I say that I've
> never seen an IP allocation rejected because some of the need to
> separate recursive and authoritative servers.
>
> But even if you could find such an entity, run them on distinct hosts
> or distinct Xen instances. There's no plausible way to reject 1-ip-
> per-host.
>
> Given that most of us on IP helpdesks are having to spend all day
> rejecting people who want MySQL to have its own IP, Mail to have its
> own IP, DNS to have its own IP, etc etc /28 for each and every host,
> this falls way way below the radar.
http://www.wolfermann.org/dnsproxy.html
splits dns queries between recursive/authoritative based on rd bit.
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Robert Edmonds
edmonds at gtisc.gatech.edu
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