[MLB-WIRELESS] more important issues <aka: guerilla radio is by ninjas, for ninjas. Worked for global IP's development!>

[Steven Haigh]

The idea I had for the new TLD of .wlan is because we know that we won't
trip over something in the near future. I'm quite willing to run root DNS
servers off my equipment to serve these...

also nodeid.suburb.wlan could work out quite interesting ;)

Although, like all things, I'm always open to suggestions...

Signed,
Steven Haigh

Out the 100Base-T, off the firewall, through the router, down the T1,
over the leased line, off the bridge, nothing but Net.

The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Close" <adrian at close.wattle.id.au>
To: <melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:21 AM
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] more important issues <aka: guerilla radio is by
ninjas, for ninjas. Worked for global IP's development!>


> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Tony Langdon wrote:
>
> > > Let's not make it a private DNS space/server network, though.  Use and
> > > build on existing infrastructure.
> >
> > Why not?  A public DNS will carry a lot of useless(to the Internet)
> > information.
>
> You could argue that for most of the zones in the DNS.  Placing more
> information in a public DNS zone hardly makes a difference to general load
> on the Internet (you don't have to look up a whole zone at once unless you
> want to be a secondary and need to do a zone transfer, and even that isn't
> strictly true with incremental transfers thesedays).  Perhaps if people
> look it up a lot across the Internet, but then the funky caching features
> of DNS come into play anyway.  If a zone gets too big you can always split
> it up into logical subzones.  Datapoint: .com is 2GB of data.  It still
> works (albeit with some gruntier hardware than normal at the backend, but
> only at the backend).
>
> Placing things in a private DNS means you have a logical disconnect with
> the global DNS.  It means anyone that wants to look up stuff in the
> private zone has to use one of the private zone servers.  They may also
> have servers on the public Internet.  How do they know which one to query
> for mlbwireless.wan or whatever?
>
> One of the great attributes of the DNS is global consistency (similar to
> IP addressing).  Don't break it without a _really_ good reason and then
> only with heavy heart.  Quick hacks for short term expediency often wind
> up becoming much bigger problems later on.
>
> [Yes, I'm passionate about this!  I also realise that people are chipping
> away at global consistency.  They will be sorry later.]
>
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