Removing wildcards from DNS

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard J.deBoynePollard at Tesco.NET
Wed Mar 24 07:44:29 UTC 2004


MU> Imho, wildcards should be wiped off DNS (RFC)
 
JdeBP> Inasmuch as wildcards are an internal matter for a set of
JdeBP> cooperating peer content DNS servers, there's no way that 
JdeBP> they can be "wiped off DNS", anymore than any other 
JdeBP> server-side aliasing mechanism can be.

MU> of course, but my point is: let's get rid of wildcards. [...]

Repeating an exhortation to do the impossible doesn't magically make it
possible.

MU> Warning: I don't wish to receive e-mail advertising to this
MU> address.

JdeBP> You've used it the "From:" field of a posting on a Usenet
JdeBP> newsgroup.  "W32/Swen.A at mm" is coming your way.

MU> that is a political solution, not a technical, nobody can 
MU> now say I agree with spam if I'll sue them.

So who are you going to sue about any "W32/Swen.A at mm" messages that
you receive ?


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