[MLB-WIRELESS] DNS: What is our zone going to look like?

[Tim Hogard]

It currently looks like:
$ host hvc.ping.abnormal.com
hvc.ping.abnormal.com has address 10.10.1.1
That didn't work so well so it hasn't been fixed since I don't
know what the fix is.

Also I run 3 dedicated DNS only servers around the globe.
Maybe they should all be SVC records....


-tim


> 
> Good evening,
> 
> > Perhaps just 'www' and 'ftp' then. That would be the most obvious choice
> as
> > they would be the most common thing used.
> 
> NO!  Not even those.  Why bother!  It's more trouble than it's worth -
> drawing lines in the sand is a bad idea - better to have no lines at all -
> no arguments then! ;-)
> 
> > I mean you would go to "ftp.kbn.wireless.org.au" (or whatever it ends up
> > being) which is just the ftp server on the kbn node.
> > But what happens if there is
> > "ftp.wireless.org.au" ? Which just happens to be a node AND a service on
> > the wireless.org.au domain? Where does it go to?
> 
> Doesn't matter - it's only a hostname...  What 'will happen' depends on the
> application used to connect to it.
> 
> If you use an ftp client to connect to a web server, will it connect?  It
> will if the web server happens to have an ftp server running onit.
> 
> What happens if you try to point a web server to ftp.duxtel.com.au?  Try it
> and see!  What about shop.duxtel.com.au?
> 
> The hostname is technically irrelevant to what services are available.
> 
> > But allowing for the "average user" who hears about melb wireless and it's
> > abundance of free offline content to access (say in 1-2 years time or
> > something) and they think "Oh, there's an FTP server out there... let's
> see
> > what's on it!"
> > 
> > user navigates to ftp.geelong.wireless.org.au and gets a Node HTTP page
> for
> > node FTP
> 
> So what?
> 
> It is more likely, anyway, that whoever is lucky enough to have that domain
> will find themselves with a useful bit of real estate, and there will be a
> few interests fighting over access to it - just like whoever happens to have
> had the foresight to register "wireless.org.au" ;-)
> 
> > Yet on "geelong.wireless" you have configured a ftp server that is a local
> > mirror per-se of a central one in Melbourne to enable speedier transit
> > times!
> 
> I fail to recognise the importance of this point.
> 
> > The above is hypothetical, but I talk to people who know very little about
> > the internet, but know what WWW & FTP is at the least.
> > So just the two primary "common" ones that an average net junkie would
> use.
> > IE: One who likes to download files from node or iiNet file servers, but
> no
> > nothing of mail configuration / ssh / vpn etc.
> 
> It really doesn't matter in the least what it is called.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
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