DRAFT - DNS Admin Guide

[Dan Langille]

On 25 Jun 2003 at 19:08, Ken Smith wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:39:09PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> > You are not the only ones.  We have http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ 
> > and the nzfug mailing list which goes with it.
> 
> Ok, I understand the previous question a bit better as far as deciding
> on terms for delegation, sub-delegation, etc.  This helped me see a
> bit more than I had been.
> 
> Assuming the load on dnsadm@ isn't too great I think this sort of
> thing can fall under what I described in the last one.  The folks
> that want nzfug.nz.freebsd.org send the request to dnsadm@, who
> function as the coordinator for DNS analogous to there being a coordinator
> for FTP mirrors.
> They delegated nz.freebsd.org to you a while ago
> so they talk to you.  In the end if nzfug does come into being the
> dnsadm@ coordinator records all the info about them (site contact,
> etc) at that level.  Now if you were to disappear dnsadm@ can still
> contact nzfug to see if they can pick up the pieces.

DNS is distributed.  The actions should be distributed as well.  Why 
should people contact dnsadm@ if they want to add hosts to 
nz.freebsd.org?

Why minimize email traffic and have the the person in charge of 
nz.freebsd.org send site contact details to dnsadm@ for record 
keeping purposes.  It put the work where it should be.  In the 
region.  That frees up the dnsadm at .
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/