On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:23:10PM +0000, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: >Not quite right. If I set up IBM.com in my dns anyone on my network would go >where my records point to and nothing can supercede them except a lawsuit. >Not internic, your ISP, IBM or anyone. >
There are actually legitmate reasons one might do something like this. I had a case last week when one of my friend's DSL connection got hosed, and their upstream took several days to fix it, giving them a fixed IP dialup in the interim. We're the primary backup MX forwarder for their domain, but not a secondary DNS server. I just set up authoritative DNS for them here using djbdns (lot's easier and more secure than bind) with a primary MX record pointing to their dynamic dialup, and this got their mail flowing in the interim. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ It's very glamorous to raise millions of dollars, until it's time for the venture capitalist to suck your eyeballs out. -- Peter Kennedy, chairman of Kraft & Kennedy. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
