Search Again: Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS From: Len Conrad Date: Monday, December 22, 2003 Time: 5:26:48 pm >And dnsreport is not saying anything is broken or needs to be fixed. aw, come on, the paragraph is labeled "WARNING" For you, is something postive going to follow? For DNS-ignorant people struggling to get their DNS in good shape, this most certainly looks like a negative that needs fixing. He then spews on with negative phrases (actually pure FUD) "not providing glue" "but not supplying" "can cause slightly slower connections" "may cause some incompatibilities" and then an outright error: "this behavior is allowed by the RFCs." So if it's RFC compatible, why all the WARN and hair-splitting, inconsequential negativity? No glue is simply how host registration in parent nameservers works. Totally misleading: "you can speed up the connections slightly". This is strictly true, but immeasurable for ALL intents and purposes in practice. This a recommendation to change your NSs TLDs (and therefore all domain delegations using those NSs, which is hairy task for anybody) for absolutely no good reason and to no effect. The DNSReport "no glue" BS has appeared up on this list before, and has appeared in all the DNS-relevant mailing lists I follow. So it clearly wastes a lot of people's time, the people whom the DNSReport are trying to help. The "no glue" comment is totally counterproductive, misleading. DNSReport would be much better not mentioning it all. Len

Messages In This Thread: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by System Administrator on Dec 18, 2003 at 10:40:03 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Ron Smith on Dec 19, 2003 at 1:31:15 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by System Administrator on Dec 19, 2003 at 4:24:01 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by mattb on Dec 19, 2003 at 10:31:50 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Dec 22, 2003 at 10:05:05 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 22, 2003 at 10:38:43 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Michael Wise on Dec 22, 2003 at 11:21:16 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 22, 2003 at 5:26:48 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Michael Wise on Dec 22, 2003 at 6:08:36 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Dec 22, 2003 at 11:20:20 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Michael Wise on Dec 23, 2003 at 8:59:19 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 23, 2003 at 12:01:08 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Michael Wise on Dec 23, 2003 at 4:43:54 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Dec 27, 2003 at 12:07:21 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 27, 2003 at 5:57:53 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Men & Mice Support on Dec 29, 2003 at 12:41:13 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 29, 2003 at 2:06:31 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Men & Mice Support on Dec 29, 2003 at 2:29:57 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 29, 2003 at 2:41:06 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Men & Mice Support on Dec 29, 2003 at 3:15:46 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 29, 2003 at 6:49:52 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Dec 29, 2003 at 10:51:25 pm