Anand Vaidya <[email protected]> wrote on 2009-Jun-03: > a) A control freak > b) You are not (a) but nice guy and Want more control on DNS entries > c) Split DNS etc (same DNS serves external and internal RFC1918 style IPs) > d) Want to run atleast 2 flavours of DNS (Bind, DJB eg) > e) Want to run DNS with MySQL or LDAP backend , where records are > populated by your own application > f) You run AD which insists on controlling EVERYTHING :-(
g) Your Domain registrar's web based tool for administering DNS is SOOOOOOO bad that you can't find anything. Mine lists everything in the order you entered them - not by ip and not by name - by date of entry! So you have to do a 'search' on the web page to find anything. h) Your Domain registrar's web based tool for administering DNS refuses to do perfectly legitimate things or (maybe worse) allows you to do illegitimate things. For example: - MX records should not be CNAMES, but some DNS services will allow that. But that chokes some mailservers who aren't set up to do an additional lookups when the MX lookup only returns a CNAME instead of an A record. - it's fine that a CNAME in a domain (let's say "www.domain.com") points to a totally different domain (let's say "domain.example.com"), but many DNS services will not allow that. Either the whole domain is listed there and CNAMES can only point to hosts in that domain, or the entire domain is forwarded somewhere else. You can't do both even through it's perfectly "legal" in DNS. Jeff _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
