If I understand you correctly, you're suggesting that if someone specifies a
machine as a nameserver then a nameserver entry should automatically be made
in the registry.
I think that's a BAD idea, for a number of reasons:
1) Typos would create lots of invalid name servers
2) Additional records in the registry would impact the ability of the root
servers to quickly resolve IPs
3) Old, invalid, dead name servers would never go away
4) People could/would specify name servers that aren't actually running DNS
software. Whether this is intentional or not, if the machine is shown as
authoritative, it will be in the rotation for DNS services, and the site
will be unreachable from time to time. (Remember, there's not really any
concept of Primary and Secondary DNS other than which machine controls the
updates...for lookups, all listed name servers are pressed into action)
By automating name server creation, you basically remove the ability to
validate the entry, and LOTS of bad data would get into the system. The
result would, in all likelihood, bring the DNS system to its knees.
My $0.02
Regards,
Eric Longman
Atl-Connect Internet Services
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance Woodson" <lance@woodson.com>
To: <dev-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 2:26 PM
Subject: Automatically Adding Nameservers?
How hard would it be to automatically add the nameserver into the
acceptable nameserver list whenever someone tries to register to a new
nameserver? Comments?
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