Don't provide promiscuous proxy DNS service

Roy Arends Roy.Arends at nominum.com
Mon Sep 3 03:06:25 UTC 2001


On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:

>
> FA> Upon further investigation, we discovered that other people (even
> FA> competitors) were utilizing our DNS servers to perform regular
> FA> queries.
>
> JdeBP>
> http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/dns-server-roles.html#ProxyIP
>
> KD> Why do you insist on muddying standard terminology?  [...]
> KD> [...] it's very confusing [...]
>
> That's a leading question.  It takes an untruth as its premise.

You _are_ redefining standardised terminology.

Some good DNS documents can be found on:
  http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/docs/

A BIND FAQ can be found on:
  http://www.nominum.com/resources/faqs/bind-faqs.html

The ol' domains-faq (though still _very_ useful) can be found at:
  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet/tcp-ip/domains-faq

This mailing list is archived and can be found (and searched) at:
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-users

The news group (comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains) is archived and can be
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Roy Arends
Nominum
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