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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: dns - golog
On Thursday 19 Oct 2006 13:50, you wrote: > > Can you suggest me any objective reason in order to invalidate this > proposal? Been done to death here before, assuming it is the same sort of DNS hack as the others. Basically if you can guarantee that all DNS servers are used exclusively for browsing then it probably won't generate much of a problem (maybe complaints but not that many technical problems). If your clients use DNS for SMTP (or possibly other stuff but SMTP will do), then a wildcard breaks a lot of things. You can demonstrate if clients used DNS in such a fashion, dump the database, and look for common DNS BL for spam filtering. If that data is in your cache, at least one of your clients email systems will likely break with this change. Stefan blogged this in response to previous discussion here; http://blog.zaphods.net/articles/2006/07/17/re-sitefinder-ii-the-sequel Of course it is a business decision, upsetting lots of customers, and losing a lot of email, breaking common Internet assumptions may be a good business decision if the customers left generate you enough revenue. But I would be cautious myself. Wildcard DNS can make troubleshooting a problem due to a mistyped name a real pain. I know I've had that pain, what with ssh claiming that the key had changed, and all sorts of weirdness I didn't need when the pager went off in the small hours, because I types a name wrong, and got a server I wasn't expecting.
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