On May 28, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Evan Hunt <e...@isc.org> wrote: > 1) In the places I've worked, there have often been emails going around > asking who's in charge of a particular machine or a particular IP address, > that information having apparently been misplaced since the machine was set > up or the address allocated. In geographically dispersed organizations it > can be particularly hard to figure this stuff out. It would be nice to be > able to leave breadcrumbs in the zone file and have them a) not get stomped > on, and b) be retrievable by an administrator working in a colo cage > somewhere by sending a suitably TSIG-signed query. > > 2) Over the years I've had to tell a dozen or so BIND operators who'd had > disk failures on their master servers to fetch backup zones from slaves, > and heard sadness at the loss of comments. (Also file ordering, but > that's not something that NOTE can help with.) > > 3) Status comments could be added to zones such as "signed by $version > on $host at $date".
These are all examples of things that are ordinarily addressed by some kind of IPAM user interface. Stuffing this information into the DNS seems like a layering violation. By which I don't mean "so you can't do it," but rather "so I'm skeptical that it should be recommended practice." _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
