Everybody Resolves this Domain but Us.

[Chris Davis]

I can see your point about the diffusion of responsibility for a zone.

Back to the zone not loading, then.  That leaves it with the administrator
of the broken zone.

Or would a zone load but with a big ugly log entry be so bad?

We know people are doing this.  There's always someone new coming along to
do it after the current administrator fixes his problem.  Why not keep save
the hassle via a sanity check at startup?

And for old timers who prefer not to have their sanity checked (for whatever
reasons) Bind could certainly toss in a configuration option to override of
the checking behavior.




-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Ehlke [mailto:pde at ehlke.net]
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 10:01 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Everybody Resolves this Domain but Us.


>The responsibility for ensuring that a zone works rests with the zone's
>administrators. Diffusing that responsibility is a horribly bad idea. How
>far do you want to extend this concept? If a zone administrator
>publishes an MX record that resolves to 127.0.0.1 or somewhere inside
>1918 space, should we discard that? 
>
>Remember, if you write idiot-proof software, nature produces a better
>idiot.
>
>-P.
>