> From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patr...@ianai.net> > Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:24:52 -0500 > > On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > i loved the henry ford analogy -- but i think henry ford would have > > said that > > the automatic transmission was a huge step forward since he wanted > > everybody > > to have a car. i can't think of anything that's happened in the > > automobile > > market that henry ford wouldn't've wished he'd thought of. > > > > i knew that the "incoherent DNS" market would rise up on its hind > > legs and > > say all kinds of things in its defense against the ACM Queue > > article, and i'm > > not going to engage with every such speaker. > > Paul: I completely agree with you that putting wildcards into the > roots, GTLDs, CCTLDs, etc. is a Bad Idea and should be squashed. > Users have little (no?) choice on their TLDs. Stopping those is a > Good Thing, IMHO. > > However, I own a domain (or couple hundred :). I have a wildcard on > my domain. I point it where I want. I feel not the slightest twinge > of guilt at this. Do you think this is a Bad Thing, or should this be > allowed? > > Also, why are you upset at OpenDNS. People _intentionally_ select to > use OpenDNS, which is clear in its terms of service, and even allows > users to turn off the bits that annoy you. Exactly what is the issue? > > And lastly, DNS is not "truth". DNS is the Domain Name System, it is > what people configure it to be. You yourself have argued things like > responding with "192.0.2.1" for DNSBLs that are being shut down. > That is clearly NOT "truth".
I find it mildly amusing that my first contact with Paul was about 25 years ago when he was at DEC and I objected to his use of a wildcard for dec.com. The situations are not parallel and the Internet was a very different animal in those days (and DEC was mostly DECnet), but still I managed to maintain a full set of MX records for all of our DECnet systems. That said, I really, really get annoyed by the abuse of the DNS system. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
