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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Root Nameserver IPs
On Monday, Sep 9, 1996, Nick Hilliard writes: >> How about allocating some "good sounding" IP addresses for them, >> (like 1.0.0.x/32) and hard-wiring them into resolver code? Would >> save quite a lot of configuration headaches for newbies. > >Hardwiring anything like this into a system like DNS sounds like a really >bad idea if only for the simple reason that DNS is not just used on the >Internet, but also within private networks. Having hardwiring IP numbers in >this case would cause headaches of unimaginable proportions. > >Nick Good point. So make sure there's a way to override the hardwired defaults, is all... Anyone setting up a private network with private resolvers, etc, will be clueful enough to know to include --rootserverfile named.root on the command line... --Zachayr - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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