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Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Er. This is _root zone_. You either have access to it, or not. Those are completely separated name spaces. If you have an intranet you may want to have internal routes for local roots. A *lot* less headache when all namseservers on all machines work out-of-box without system administrator running in circles changing addresses. Anyway, i would rather have an override for root NS addresses, instead of required configuration. How many root caches out there are configured with all correct addresses? My estimate is below 20%. --vadim PS. Thanks to those who pointed that it is not resolver but rather cacheing NS. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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