Re: draft-manning-dnssvr-criteria-01.txt

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Sat, 04 May 1996 20:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: draft-manning-dnssvr-criteria-01.txt
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>>> 4. Singly homed (only one interface).
>>> 	Name service should always answer out the same interface as requests
>>> 	come in on. Also, delegations will usually list a single A RR, so there
>>> 	should only be a single canonical name.
>> One presumes that the nameserver software will handle this properly, and I
>> should not be restricted by how many interfaces my host has.
> 	Assuming facts not in evidence.

Then fix the software.

> 	Thanks for your inputs. Perhaps since 85% of the world has zero
> 	need for or near term interest in DS3 or 100Mb services that no
> 	one else should work on these issues or publish documents on problems
> 	or concerns with these issues.

Not at all.  But they should not arrogantly be mandated by an RFC.

> 	It is not current practice.  It is proposing a practice.

It is proposing overly restrictive and unrealistic practice to be supervised
by an unspecified new technocracy.

randy