@On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 09:23:38AM -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
@> On Monday, June 01, 1998 4:18 AM, James Rishaw[SMTP:jamie@dilbert.ais.net]
<snip>
@
@ Even *fewer* people understand how dns works, nor can configure
@it properly. This is easy to tell, log lame delegations on your
@nameserver. Or log the "invalid" hostnames stuff, folks with _/, etc..
@in their dns entries.
@
The DNS could be used for much more than it currently is configured
to handle. It is only a matter of time before people become better
educated about the general purpose nature of the system. Some
people think that A records can only contain 32 bit IP addresses
when in fact they are generic containers for objects of class, Integer.
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - An H.323 GateKeeper for the IPv8 Network
http://www.unir.net
0:196 .MALL
@On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 09:23:38AM -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
@> On Monday, June 01, 1998 4:18 AM, James
Rishaw[SMTP:jamie@dilbert.ais.net]
<snip>
@
@ Even *fewer* people understand how dns works, nor can configure
@it properly. This is easy to tell, log lame delegations on your
@nameserver. Or log the "invalid" hostnames stuff, folks with _/, etc..
@in their dns entries.
@
The DNS could be used for much more than it currently is configured
to handle. It is only a matter of time before people become better
educated about the general purpose nature of the system. Some
people think that A records can only contain 32 bit IP addresses
when in fact they are generic containers for objects of class, Integer.
Nope... A records are IP (V4) only... So are AAAA (IP V6)...
What you are referring to is the multitude of records existing currently
under DNS... Like the TXT (generic text), the RP (Responsible person), etc...
There is approximately 30 different records existing, there is even about
half a dozen "mail routing" records that I've never seen used anywhere (how
sad 
Sincerely
I have always wondered two things:
1. Why nearly NO windows applications (and to be fair, some *nix type apps)
seem to understand multiple A records (gee, this one didn't work, lets try the
next).
2. Why Web services don't have entries like MX hosts do. Why not be able to
set preferences and fall over hosts?
Seems instead of this, reverse proxies, round-robin etc. is being tried.