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Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?

Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net> Wed, 09 May 2001 23:38 UTC

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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 01:06:53 +0200
From: Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net>
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
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Subject: Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?
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On Wed, 9 May 2001, Robert Elz wrote:

>   | When would this ever happen?
> 
> Cricket and Mats answered already.
> 
> The important thing to be aware of is that there aren't any
> different types of domain based upon their names - all domains
> are created equal, and remain equal.   Any domain can have any RR
> in it.   Any time you're tempted to generalise based upon domain
> name, you're almost invariably going to be wrong.

Okay, I'll bite.  What does it mean to have a PTR record in anything
other than the in-addr.arpa tree?  While in some ways all domains are
equal, can't we at least say that some domains are more equal than
others?  :P

--
Shane

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