Having had experience with service providers not at all unlike the one being mentioned here ;-) I think it is important to note that business people don't always read RFC's, and the best intentions (and practices) of mice, men and engineers can sometimes be significantly impacted by those they report to. Aaah ... the real world strikes again. Arron Scott *********************************************************************** Arron Scott (CCIE #4099) Phone: +64-9-3551951 Systems Engineer Mobile: +64-27-4883163 Cisco New Zealand mailto:ascott(a)cisco.com http://www.cisco.com *********************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of Andy Linton Sent: Monday, 5 August 2002 9:24 a.m. To: James Spooner Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: Netgate outage causes chaos! On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, James Spooner wrote:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2182.html
Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
James, Thanks for reminding us all of this RFC. There's some good advice from very clueful people in there. Presumably that's why the IETF codified as "Best Current Practice". But what would they know. (:-) I note the RFC is more concerned about broken forward than reverse servers which was the topic of the original post. Perhaps in addition to Peter Mott's suggestion on this topic, people could ask their ISPs why they don't implement the provisions of this RFC. andy - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog