is bind needed at all?

[Brad Knowles]

At 1:52 PM +0000 9/6/01, Barry Margolin wrote:

>  Why?  He didn't ask us to debug a problem, he just asked a general
>  question about whether he needs to operate his own name server.  Since you
>  don't need to send a query to anything to answer this, why do you care what
>  domain it is?

	Let's review.  On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 21:49:29 GMT, "Larry 
Dalrymple" <admin at enforcerz.net> asked:

>  I am using dynamic dns to have mydomain.net pointed to my own box.
>  Do I need to be running dns/bind to run my own mailserver to
>  mydomain.net also ?
>
>  Or should I be running a name caching only  named.conf ?

	At Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:17:02 -0700, Pete Ehlke <pde at ehlke.net> 
gave the rather flippant response:

>  According to your whois information, you live in Nova Scotia.
>  mydomain.net is in Los Gatos, California. Why would you want to
>  try to point mydomain.net, which you do not own, to your own box?

	On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:41:54 -0700, "JOHNSON, ERIK *Internet* 
(PBI)" <erjohnson at pbi.net> came back with:

>  Uh, Pete, I think mydomain.net is a hypothetical term.
>
>  Does anyone know the answer to this because I'd like to know, as well.

	Then, at Thu, 6 Sep 2001 01:58:32 +0200, I said:

>  	Okay, then.  Try filling in the real domain name in question, and
>  maybe we can provide a real answer.

	To which you replied.


	I still submit that to properly answer the question, we need to 
know the real name of the domain being discussed, so that we can look 
at it from the outside and see if there is anything happening with it 
that might require a different answer.


	I agree with Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com>, that we 
should not be coming back with flippant responses like Pete did, 
because it just muddies the question and doesn't really help solve 
the problem.

	However, I agree with Pete's general approach that there just 
really isn't much sense in even trying to answer most questions 
unless people give us real domain names (and whatever other 
information is necessary) to begin with, and I am also getting very 
tired of having to continually repeat this position.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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