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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: (*F) Re: USAC and SPIN
On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 09:23:38AM -0500, Jim Fleming wrote: > On Monday, June 01, 1998 4:18 AM, James Rishaw[SMTP:[email protected]] > 3. I often wonder if people that configure routers know how routing > *should* work. > Do people that drive cars know how cars work ? Do they care ? > > Maybe we should create a Top Level Domain named .SPIN. That > TLD could be used to register the free SPIN numbers at the second level. > For example, Bell Atlantic might have 143001398.SPIN for Pennsylvania. > A TXT Record could be included in the DNS to contain the name > "Pennsylvania" for the SPIN number. > > After registering a SPIN number, an ISP could add A records for their > ASNs and OUI information. Since an A record is a general purpose > container for 32 bit quantities, a single A record can be used to hold > an ASN in the low 16 bits. Another A record can hold the 24 bit OUI > in the low 24 bits. With this, the following DNS entries would return > A records: > > ASN.143001398.SPIN > OUI.143001398.SPIN Even *fewer* people understand how dns works, nor can configure it properly. This is easy to tell, log lame delegations on your nameserver. Or log the "invalid" hostnames stuff, folks with _/, etc.. in their dns entries. - Jared
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