Yet another request for help with Dynamic DNS

[Irina Goble]

> 
> Ahhhh, yes, you are quite right.  using "nn.nn.nn.nn.dns-rev-domainname."
> was a policy decision that I (with some discussion with Ted) made that I
> thought would provide everybody with a solution to populating a
> "non-in-addr.arpa." reverse domain name.  I think we (Ted and I) discussed
> that there were umpteen million ways to actually configure classless
> delegation and that we were going to have to bite the bullet and
> "prescribe" one way that it would be done.  The prescribed method I thought
> was fairly simple in that it mirrored in many ways the way in-addr.arpa.
> worked and would be verbose enough to always be clear about what was
> pointing to what for what.
> 
> Only Ted can actually confirm this, but this "one way to do things" might
> have been at least some of the motivation behind "take two" of the DDNS
> updating from DHCP that is in the CVS trunk right now, namely the
> dns-update() expression.  That should hopefully provide the flexibility to
> use whatever classless delegation one has cooked up at one's site.
> 
	I agreed, but when you have different people at different time
configuring something that depends on something you don't even know about :-(
	Anyway, I still don't use the dns-update expressions, sorry. I use a
TSIG version which checks this classless delegation problem resolving
IP addresses (yep, + another DNS request :-( 
	Computers and networks are getting faster, Let them do the right 
things.

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> Brian J. Murrell                                        
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