Removing wildcards from DNS
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Oct 7 22:28:04 UTC 2003
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>>MU> Imho, wildcards should be wiped off DNS (RFC)
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>Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard at tesco.allyourdomainarebelongtoverisign.net> wrote:
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>>Inasmuch as wildcards are an internal matter for a set of cooperating peer
>>content DNS servers, there's no way that they can be "wiped off DNS",
>>anymore than any other server-side aliasing mechanism can be.
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>of course, but my point is: let's get rid of wildcards. I've heard opinions
>that they have legitimate use, but can't find _any_ use that could be calles
>legitimate, and would be worth of receiving spam, flooding the network with
>crap and easting DNS servers' and http proxies' resources...
>
It is perfectly legitimate, IMO, in an internal-root DNS architecture,
to use wildcard MX records at the TLDs in order to centrally manage an
enterprise's outbound mail routing.
But, if you *really* want to propose eliminating wildcard records, I
think "namedroppers" would be a more appropriate forum for that than
"bind-users"...
- Kevin
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