DRAFT - DNS Admin Guide

Ken Smith kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Wed Jun 25 16:44:35 PDT 2003


On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:34:55PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:21:52PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> If it's possible to communicate that in a way that it doesn't add
> to confusion I'm all for it but I can't figure out a way that is
> deterministic without *requiring* every country take on the responsibility
> for their zone.  If that's what everyone else thinks is good I'll shut
> up about it. :-)  I'm just trying to take the end-users' guesswork out
> of figuring out where to send the request.

... And apparently I didn't understand your previous example as well
as I thought.  I'm suggesting dnsadm@ do record keeping at the *zone*
level.  *Not* host level.  As you say it's distributed, if you wanted
to add in a new host for some special purpose dnsadm@ doesn't need to
know a thing about it.  If the Mirror Site Coordinator happens to
remember nz.freebsd.org is delegated s/he doesn't *need* to contact
dnsadm@ and they can go straight to you.  But if they forget that
nz.freebsd.org is delegated they can just send to dnsadm@ and it
will find its way to you.  But if you're adding in an entire new
zone inside of nz.freebsd.org IMO it would be best if dnsadm@ be aware of it.

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						Ken Smith
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