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>This is probably a proprietary feature; I know I haven't seen it in
Re: Feature Request: name pools
From: Jerry Pasker-System Admin.
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 1999
Time: 5:35:00 pm
>the RFCs (but I could have missed it):
>
>I would really like to be able to enter an IP range and have every
>reverse lookup on that range match a single name (or even random
>names based on a name pattern like "machineXX.nsd.org" where XX is a
>random string).
>
>Why? More and more sites will refuse to let you have access or
>download software (especially encryption software that is export
>restricted) unless they can do a reverse lookup to identify your
>domain. Making an entry for every one of the 8000 computers on our
>network is obviously a waste of time. Even something that
>automatically generates the tables is a pain because it will
>eventually require maintenance of some sort.
Sounds like a Bad Idea.? Running a large network requires maintenance.
Period. I can only imagine the error reports generated by DNS Expert. :-)
Why not include a feature to auto-update the PTR records, when the A record
is modified. Tie the PTR to the A record. The QDNS Admin program could do
that easily enough, right? MacDNS auto-creates PTRs, from the A records,
on the fly, and it was kinda nice to never have to deal with reverse DNS.
Yes, that's a feature that MacDNS has, that QDNS Pro doesn't have.
It'd be kinda neat if QDNS or at least the Admin program could match the
simplicity of MacDNS.
(I'm in NO WAY advocating the use of MacDNS!! It SUCKS!! IT SUCKS BAD!!!
EVIL!! STAY AWAY!!)
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