> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:07:31 +0000 > From: Evan Hunt <evan_h...@isc.org> > To: "Eric C. Davis" <e...@mail.rockefeller.edu> > Subject: Re: Hostname Naming Compliance > Cc: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" <bind-users@lists.isc.org> > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:54:46PM -0500, Eric C. Davis wrote: > > I know the option to use this compliance checker is present, but I'm > > curious to know if there are plans to make it mandatory to comply. We > > aren't using this feature now, but I would like to. My problem is > > politicking my way around the issue of breaking something that works. > > If Bind were to say they were going to start forcing compliance with > > this naming standard, then I simply have to say it's a standard that is > > being enforced. Shouldn't enforcement be applied across the board > > anyway instead of at the operator's discretion? > > I haven't heard anyone at ISC suggest this, but if I did, I'd argue > against it. I don't think we have any wish to be the "enforcers". :) > And anyway, if we put "mandatory" compliance into BIND, people who > wanted to break the rule would just hack it back out again.
If you want to "enforce" compliance, get M$ on board. Otherwise it ain't gonna fly. I had good luck with $PREVIOUS_JOB with getting the company to implement a "policy" of what host names should look like and then, when a user tried to register a host via the helpdesk, the HelpDesk personnel 'enforced' the naming standard. (We also ran into several places where non-compliance "broke things". (And no, I don't remember what they were...) I personally, whenever I saw a non-compliant hostname, would contact the user and tell them that their hostname, formatted thus-and-so, could cause problems and "Why don't you let me fix the name for you?" 990 times out of a 1,000, I got a "Go ahead. Let me know when you're finished." ($COMPANY's host table had some 48,000-50,000 names in it any one time... There were MANY chances to excel there.) Regards, Gregory Hicks > > -- > Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org > Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer | Direct: 408.569.7928 People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf -- George Orwell The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
