In message <541271ba.2000...@redbarn.org>, Paul Vixie writes: > > On 9/11/2014 8:22 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <54125edc.6000...@redbarn.org>, Paul Vixie writes: > >> On 9/11/2014 7:08 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > >>> ... > >>> > >>> I just wish I had been able to convince Paul to remove support for > >>> partially qualified names back when RFC 1535 came out. We knew > >>> then that they were a bad idea. ndots minimises the damage of using > >>> partially qualified names. It doesn't remove it. > >> at the time (1993?) i felt it was best not to break anybody's existing > >> configuration. that seems insane now. > > The configuration is *already* broken. If you are depending upon > > partially qualified names then they are a time bomb waiting to > > happen. > > you know what would be cool is if i still used MH and could usefully > search my e-mail archives to prove that paul vixie and mark andrews just > now (2014-09-11) repeated almost verbatim a debate we had some time in > 1993 or 1994. it would not just be funny, but perhaps also depressing, > and it would save time. > > i believe that the next line of dialogue from this play is: > > vixie: "your definition of 'break' is academic, mine is practical. right > now the people who are using unqualified names are getting work done and > they are not calling me to report bugs in the BIND resolver. if i make > the change you are suggesting, they stop getting work done and they will > look me up in WHOIS and call my phone." > > like i said this seems insane now. mark was right, we should have broken > the bad stuff as early as possible.
It isn't impossible. Emit warnings whenever a partially qualified name matches and syslog / EventLog it. "WARNING: The partially qualified name '%s' resulted in a search list match. The use of partially qualified names is a unsafe practice. Fix your configuration to use the fully qualified name '%s'." Linux developers do stuff like this for deprecated system calls where the user has zero control. Here the user can correct the configuration / behaviour. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
