On Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 16:19:47 +1100, O Plameras wrote: >Ben Leslie wrote: >>On Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 15:59:45 +1100, O Plameras wrote: >> >>>Ben Leslie wrote: >>> >>>>On Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 15:17:47 +1100, O Plameras wrote: >>>> >>>>>>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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>It will resolve ONLY within aarnet.edu.au but NOT the INTERNET. >>> >> >>Incorrect. >> >> > >The authority to associate NAME to ip address has to be propagated up to >the ROOT servers. You mean >to say that AARNET can do this without the express approval from the >owners of 203.7.132.1 ? NO, aarnet.edu.au cannot, otherwise it is against >the rules and perhaps against the law.
Incorrect. For example I have just registered: dns-is-hard.benno.id.au => 203.7.132.1 I did not need express approval from the owners of 203.7.132.1 because that is not how the INTERNET works. Nothing in the internet architecture stops be associating any name (under the domain I own) to any ip address I like. Just to prove a point: slug.benno.id.au => slug website You can even point names to ip addresses not on the INTERNET! Even the the name resolved on the INTERNET! hackme.benno.id.au => 127.0.0.1 The authority to associate NAME with IP is entirely on the NAME side not the IP side. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
