One Domain; Multiple IPs.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9j2b49$on3 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Jim Reid  <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
>If/when rsync gets blessed by the IETF and IAB as a mechanism for zone
>replication, you can be sure it will be in the reference DNS
>implementation.

Is there a law, or even a concensus, that says that vendors should not
implement things other than IETF standards?

On the other hand, I think Dan is wrong to criticize Nominum for not
offering these things.  Just because you *can* use things like rsync
doesn't mean that they have to write the code.  If someone calls Nominum
and asks "Do you offer a way to replicate named.conf files?", they're just
be truthful when they say that they don't; if someone wants to replicate
them using rsync, they need to roll their own scripts.  Any decent sysadmin
should be able to do this.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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