Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:44:00 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Linh Pham" <lplist@closedsrc.org> Cc: "Jon Rust" <jpr@vcnet.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: BIND denied update logging Message-ID: <001c01c0c57f$d591e240$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104140757080.37903-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
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The problem is that if dyDNS was really only intended to be used internally, they could have redesigned a better protocol than DNS to do it. (and, no WINS is not it) We are kind of in a protocol enhancement fad, anyway. TCP/IP was originally designed expressly for adding new protocols (this is what the port assignments are all about) for each different application. And, for many years people did just that. However, today the fad is to stack all new applications onto existing protocols, no matter how well designed the old protocol is for the new application. Undoubtedly, in another 10 years the pendulum will have swung the other direction and we will be back to seeing new protocols for new applications. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Linh Pham >Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 8:01 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Jon Rust; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: BIND denied update logging > > >On 2001-04-14, Ted Mittelstaedt scribbled: > ># Do't bomb Redmond - dyDNS was an IETF baby before MS decided ># to use it. Frankly it's completely stupid because by the time ># that the changed DNS record propagates to the rest of the ># Internet, the dynamic system has finished it's session and disconnected. > >DyDNS is a better than Microsoft's cruddy WINS name resolution in that >you can use any operating system that supports registering the machine's >hostname and domain name. Also, DyDNS is required (as well as a >subdomain called `_msadc.') to use Microosft' Active Directory. > ># (Whenever I point that out to dyDNS people, they tell me that ># dyDNS is only supposed to be used for internal DNS only - of course ># this is usually after 5 minutes of listening to them expound on the ># virtues of dyDNS for the Internet) > >I do think that DyDNS should only be used internally (why else would one >really need it? I can see dial-up people wanting to use it, but I don't >think ISPs want to deal with that!). You also don't want DyDNS requests, >ack messages, and other related packets to be set through the public >Internet anyways :) > >-- >Linh Pham >[lplist@closedsrc.org] > >// 404b - Brain not found > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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