Re: I Hate DNS

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Yes, and that hate can be expanding to routing in general. One false 
move and you've lost your connection to that client's server across the 
planet ... until they can send someone into the datacentre to fix it 
... nasty ...

(It happened to me ... but luckily I could get into a neighbouring 
server and use IPv6 to get in and fix it ...)

Rob

On 12/04/2006, at 10:35 AM, Mike Fleming wrote:

> It's so easy to mis-configure, and so difficult to test.
>
> For example, this works:
>
>  % dig @xx.xx.xx.x we.hates-software.com
>
> But this doesn't:
>
>  % dig @xx.xx.xx.x we.hates-software.com
>
>
> So I may or may not be able to get to this site, depending upon who's 
> DNS server I use.

• I Hate DNS Mike Fleming 23:35 on 11 Apr 2006
  • Re: I Hate DNS Rob Scovell-Lightfoot 23:39 on 11 Apr 2006
    • sabrina downard 16:29 on 12 Apr 2006

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