Re: [DoD Source -- ssshhhh Top Secret] Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.07.20 um 17:20 schrieb Michael De Roover: > On 7/9/20 5:03 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> but it still has nothing to do with your domain by definition, the PTR >> could be anything > Of course it can be, they're completely separate name spaces. However > would it make any sense in practice

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [DoD Source -- ssshhhh Top Secret] Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-10 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 09.07.20 15:49, DeCaro, James John (Jim) CIV DISA FE (USA) via bind-users wrote: We have an application that queries reverse lookups on clients trying to access it in order to verify the client and its IP are legit and a part of the correct domain/acl.. So if the pointer record does not

Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 7/9/20 6:43 AM, Anand Buddhdev wrote: If you don't have an A record at the zone apex, the browser will not get back any address and display an error message for the user. There was a point in time when the big web browsers would try connecting to www.. if connecting to . failed. I don't

Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Mark Andrews
t; > Best wishes, > Matthew > > -- >> From: Anand Buddhdev >> To: Matthew Richardson , bind-users >> >> Cc: >> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 17:06:13 +0200 >> Subject: Re: Dumb Question is an A or record required? > >>> On 09/07/2020 16:06, Matthew

Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Matthew Richardson
+0200 >Subject: Re: Dumb Question is an A or record required? >On 09/07/2020 16:06, Matthew Richardson wrote: > >> On a related issues there were (perhaps long ago) issues if the A record >> for a domain had an SMTP server on it, where email could sometimes be >> d

RE: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [DoD Source -- ssshhhh Top Secret] Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread DeCaro, James John (Jim) CIV DISA FE (USA) via bind-users
, but it provides an example. -Original Message- From: bind-users On Behalf Of Michael De Roover Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 11:20 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [DoD Source -- sss Top Secret] Re: Dumb Question is an A or record required? All active

Re: [DoD Source -- ssshhhh Top Secret] Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Michael De Roover
On 7/9/20 5:03 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: but it still has nothing to do with your domain by definition, the PTR could be anything Of course it can be, they're completely separate name spaces. However would it make any sense in practice to point it somewhere else entirely? You'd probably be

Re: [DoD Source -- ssshhhh Top Secret] Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.07.20 um 16:57 schrieb Michael De Roover: > You do have control over that.. i have, but not everybody has > kind of. As far as I'm aware hosting > providers generally offer control over PTR records in their admin > panels. but it still has nothing to do with your domain by

Re: VS: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Reindl Harald
peräinen viesti- > Lähettäjä: bind-users Puolesta Matthew > Richardson > Lähetetty: 9. heinäkuuta 2020 16:06 > Vastaanottaja: bind-users > Aihe: Re: Dumb Question is an A or record required? > > On a related issues there were (perhaps long ago) issues if the A recor

Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 09/07/2020 16:06, Matthew Richardson wrote: On a related issues there were (perhaps long ago) issues if the A record for a domain had an SMTP server on it, where email could sometimes be delivered to that A record rather than the MX. I had (again long ago: 10-15 years) actually seen this

Re: [DoD Source -- ssshhhh Top Secret] Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Michael De Roover
You do have control over that.. kind of. As far as I'm aware hosting providers generally offer control over PTR records in their admin panels. However delegation of them to your own authoritative name servers is.. complicated. A lot more so than delegation of forward lookups would be anyway

VS: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Jukka Pakkanen
-traffic-wise. Jukka -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: bind-users Puolesta Matthew Richardson Lähetetty: 9. heinäkuuta 2020 16:06 Vastaanottaja: bind-users Aihe: Re: Dumb Question is an A or record required? On a related issues there were (perhaps long ago) issues if the A record

Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 09.07.20 15:06, Matthew Richardson wrote: On a related issues there were (perhaps long ago) issues if the A record for a domain had an SMTP server on it, where email could sometimes be delivered to that A record rather than the MX. I had (again long ago: 10-15 years) actually seen this

Re: [DoD Source -- ssshhhh Top Secret] Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Reindl Harald
t; Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2020 8:16 AM > To: Mark Andrews; @lbutlr > Cc: bind-users > Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] Re: Dumb Question is an A or record > required? > > Would the lack of A records affect pointer records? Seems like it would __

Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Ondřej Surý
ly DNS) failure might cause an SMTP server to deliver > to A rather than MX? > > Best wishes, > Matthew > > -- >> From: Anand Buddhdev >> To: "@lbutlr" , bind-users >> Cc: >> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 14:43:04 +0200 >> Subject: Re: Dum

Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Matthew Richardson
still occur these days? What sort of transient (presumably DNS) failure might cause an SMTP server to deliver to A rather than MX? Best wishes, Matthew -- >From: Anand Buddhdev >To: "@lbutlr" , bind-users >Cc: >Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 14:43:04 +0200 >Subject: Re: Dumb

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Of Mark Andrews Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 8:56 AM To: @lbutlr Cc: bind-users Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: Dumb Question is an A or record required? At this stage one still needs A records to be reachable by everyone. One should also ensure you are reachable over IPv6 as lots

RE: [DoD Source -- ssshhhh Top Secret] Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread John W. Blue
6 AM To: Mark Andrews; @lbutlr Cc: bind-users Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] Re: Dumb Question is an A or record required? Would the lack of A records affect pointer records? Seems like it would. Jim "If you always do what you always did you will always get w

VS: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Jukka Pakkanen
- Lähettäjä: bind-users Puolesta @lbutlr Lähetetty: 9. heinäkuuta 2020 14:22 Vastaanottaja: bind-users Aihe: Dumb Question is an A or record required? Given a domain that is hosted and used for email and web, is an A record for that domain actually required? That is, if bob.tld is hosted

RE: [Non-DoD Source] Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread DeCaro, James John (Jim) CIV DISA FE (USA) via bind-users
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Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Mark Andrews
At this stage one still needs A records to be reachable by everyone. One should also ensure you are reachable over IPv6 as lots of the world behind IPv6 only links as their ISPs don’t have enough IPv4 addresses for every one. Instead they have to use some form of IPv4 as a service which is

Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 09/07/2020 14:21, @lbutlr wrote: Given a domain that is hosted and used for email and web, is an A record for that domain actually required? It's not *required*. But see below. That is, if bob.tld is hosted by example.com can you simply have NS ns1.example.com NS

Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

2020-07-09 Thread @lbutlr
Given a domain that is hosted and used for email and web, is an A record for that domain actually required? That is, if bob.tld is hosted by example.com can you simply have NS ns1.example.com NS ns2.example.com MX mx.example.com www CNAME www.example.com Without