Looking for RFC

[Jeff Younker]

Whether or not you are connected to "The Internet" is of little consequence.
If you have more than one physical or logical network then you are operating
"an internet".  The RFC's are intended to provide specifications that
facilitate the construction of internets using equipment and software from
different vendors and authors.  Without a common set of standards this would
be a much harder task than it already is.

- Jeff Younker - jeff at mdli.com - These are my opinions, not MDL's -


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Kevin Darcy [SMTP:kcd at daimlerchrysler.com]
	Sent:	Thursday, January 06, 2000 12:28 PM
	To:	comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.uu.net
	Subject:	Re: Looking for RFC

	Barry Margolin wrote:

	> In article <3873E9C5.6799F0CC at daimlerchrysler.com>,
	> Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
	> If you're using DNS to store an A record, you're presumed to be
following
	> the Internet protocols, even if you're just on a private internet.
So BIND
	> will enforce the RFC's rules.

	Granted, this is a BIND list, but my particular clarification was
about the
	relationship between OS concepts ("hostname") and RFC's, rather than
between
	BIND and RFC's. My basic point was, if I want to call my machine
	"-@(%AE(*A``SDFN", then the RFC's don't have squat to say about it
as long as
	I don't advertise that name in the Internet DNS.

	Whether BIND should be in the business of trying to enforce RFC's in
a
	non-Internet context, is a whole other can of worms. Since the vast
majority of
	DNS names and DNS servers I maintain are *not* on the Internet, it
seems rather
	silly to me personally -- the tail wagging the dog. But then it may
make more
	sense from the perspective of an Internet/Network Service Provider
who deals
	almost exclusively with Internet DNS...