A plea to PSI and other clueless DNS Admins
Måns Nilsson
mansaxel at bartlet.df.lth.se
Wed Oct 13 20:03:21 UTC 1999
In article <bkuL3.672$854.27514 at burlma1-snr2>, Barry Margolin wrote:
>Nothing in the named.boot or named.conf files has ever been covered by any
>RFC. How you configure a name server is purely an implementation-specific
>issue, and has no impact on the protocol. I'm not even sure why the zone
>master file format needed to be specified in an RFC; there are several DNS
>servers that take their input via a GUI rather than files in this format
>(e.g. MS DNS Manager, Cisco Network Registrar).
Note that some of those generate RFC compliant zone files. Lucent QIP does,
as well as MS DNS, if severely beaten. (that is _not_ an endorsement, though)
--
Måns Nilsson MN1334-RIPE
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