override ttl=0

Adam Tkac atkac at redhat.com
Thu Jan 3 13:59:09 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:46:17PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:28:38PM +0100,
>  Adam Tkac <atkac at redhat.com> wrote 
>  a message of 36 lines which said:
> 
> > If you include that patch to main source broken servers won't be
> > fixed and uneducated admins will stay uneducated.
> 
> Is there really anyone here who is chasing the uneducated admins to
> educate them? The people I was talking about (administrators of big
> recursors) have to make their systems work today, before anything
> could be done about education of the clueless. (And remember that
> TTL=0 is legal and has valid use cases so you cannot simply say to
> every zone admin "suppress them".)
> 
> 

You're right. But as I wrote above I don't think including that patch
is good solution. It means if one server is broken you have to include
similar patch to other servers. And this is really not solution.
Broken server has to be fixed.

Adam

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Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.



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