On Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 15:17:47 +1100, O Plameras wrote: >Glen Turner wrote: >>O Plameras wrote: >>>Just a footnote: one CANNOT register to be authoritative for a set of >>>public ip addresses that >>>one does not own. One has to pay (or be authorized by) the owner of >>>the public ip addresses to use >>>it for the services previously mentioned. >> >>Um, I can point >> >> www.example.aarnet.edu.au >> >>to whatever IP address I care to. I don't need the IP address owner's >>permission. I do need to be able to update the zone >>example.aarnet.edu.au, >>either manually or using dynamic DNS. >> >>It's the reverse DNS that the owner of the IP address space controls. > >So, what happens when you do, > >www.example.aarnet.edu.au A IN 203.7.132.1 > >in your live DNS,
The name www.example.aarnet.edu.au will resolve to 203.7.132.1 >and I or anyone say at AOL will not successfully access >http://www.example.aarnet.edu.au. .ummm, you won't get to successfully access the site as that host doesn't appear to have a webserver running on port 80... >Do a, > ># whois 203.7.132.1 > >and you'll see this ip address is not owned by >aarnet.edu.au >of course. Correct! But so what? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
