[MLB-WIRELESS] Re: [Technical] DNS

[Roger Venning]

Exactly, anything requiring certificates will benefit from global 
namespace. I think also that it could be possibly to accommodate the 
complexities of nodes (e.g. multiple interfaces have multiple ip 
addresses and you want to name the interfaces for operational purposes) 
by delegating, e.g. *.cia.mel.vic.cw.net.au to node CIA (ie. me!).

An alternative that I would throw out for consideration is 
frodo.3067.cw.net.au (3067 being my postcode).

Finally it should be recognised that if zone files are generated 
automatically from authoritative data sources like the nodedb (implying 
IP address management with the nodedb...) then it is possible to run 
these systems in parallel so they all work, of course inverse resolution 
is a little more interesting - which is the primary name...

Roger.

Andrew Griffiths wrote:
> This would be very useful wrt using FreeSWAN and Opp. Encryption, and will make thingers easier to remember. 
> 
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> On Friday, August 09, 2002 at 11:58:02 AM, Jamie Lovick wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I forwarded this to the Melbourne committee yesterday and have not had
>>any response. I thought I might openly propose it to the list for
>>everyone to consider.
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Jamie
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>>Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:48:31 +0930 (CST)
>>From: Jamie Lovick <jalovick at doof.org>
>>To: committee at wireless.org.au
>>Subject: Re: [Technical] DNS (fwd)
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>>Hi,
>>
>>This came out of the technical meeting here in Sydney last night ..
>>we're nutting it out now. How do you guy's feel about a national, group
>>independant namespace?
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Jamie
>>
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>>Hobby     : Doof.org                   -> jalovick at doof.org
>>Director  : Drastic Solutions Pty Ltd  -> jalovick at drasticsolutions.com.au
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>>Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:39:15 +0930 (CST)
>>From: Jamie Lovick <jalovick at doof.org>
>>Reply-To: technical at lists.sydneywireless.com
>>To: technical at lists.sydneywireless.com
>>Cc: syd-wireless at lists.sydneywireless.com
>>Subject: Re: [Technical] DNS
>>
>>On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, evilbunny wrote:
>>
>>>  This will come up in the latest tech group minutes as well, however
>>>  for DNS it was decided to have a publicly addressable DNS zone, as
>>>  this can save complications with things later...
>>>
>>>  in any case we're after suggestions for domain names, preferably as
>>>  short as possible to register and use for this purpose, hopefully
>>>  something as short as possible, was also noted that we are
>>>  Australian and should think about using a .au for this purpose...
>>
>>.... our first choice (which we've pre-emptively registered) is
>>cw.net.au, which loosely stands for Community Wireless Network
>>Australia.
>>
>>This is not to say that it will fall under a new association,
>>organization, or group, but will be available namespace for all networks
>>to use.
>>
>>Another advantage is that it is short, and legal for external DNS if we
>>can use it later ..
>>
>>Hosts would likely be in the format of:
>>
>>hostname.sub-region.region.cw.net.au
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>>Such as:
>>
>>frodo.syd.nsw.cw.net.au
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>>... and on a first come first serve basis, it could also be:
>>
>>frodo.cw.net.au
>>
>>Thoughts?
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Jamie
>>
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>>Hobby     : Doof.org                   -> jalovick at doof.org
>>Director  : Drastic Solutions Pty Ltd  -> jalovick at drasticsolutions.com.au
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