Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2009-10-26 at 19:41 -0700, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
>> DNS can very easily not work. You just need every site managing their
>> own, while not listening to the "One Who Knows DNS" TM.
>>
>> You should see the horrible mess some zone files are.
>
> Wait, you mean those people actually updated DNS? Oh frabjous joy!
>
> I still recall the admin at $previous_employer who thought that if he
> ran out of IPs for the DHCP pool, the appropriate action was to ping
> some IPs and if there was no response, grab that IP.
>
> Look in DNS zonefiles for allocations, or update DNS? Who bothers with
> that?
>
> Fortunately, one of the IPs which he grabbed was for the laptop of the
> General Manager. Never had an easier time reverting stupidity ...
>
> -Phil
Problem wasn't modifying standard A records. It all falls apart when
they start messing with NS and glue records.
And then there is the liberal use of $ORIGIN... which should be dragged
out to the street and shot... I can keep it straight, but every time I
have seen someone else in that company use it, they forget that it is
still in effect further down the zone file. (even 3 lines down from
$ORIGIN)
"Where did you get that dress, it's awful, and those shoes and that
coat, jeeeeez!"
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--MCP
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