[MLB-WIRELESS] more important issues <aka: guerilla radio is by ninjas, for ninjas. Worked for global IP's development!>

[Joseph Sirucka]

Hi

Adrian Close wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Tony Langdon wrote:
>
> > > Let's not make it a private DNS space/server network, though.  Use and
> > > build on existing infrastructure.
> >
> > Why not?  A public DNS will carry a lot of useless(to the Internet)
> > information.
>
> You could argue that for most of the zones in the DNS.  Placing more
> information in a public DNS zone hardly makes a difference to general load
> on the Internet (you don't have to look up a whole zone at once unless you
> want to be a secondary and need to do a zone transfer, and even that isn't
> strictly true with incremental transfers thesedays).  Perhaps if people
> look it up a lot across the Internet, but then the funky caching features
> of DNS come into play anyway.  If a zone gets too big you can always split
> it up into logical subzones.  Datapoint: .com is 2GB of data.  It still
> works (albeit with some gruntier hardware than normal at the backend, but
> only at the backend).
>

True about the dns.

>
> Placing things in a private DNS means you have a logical disconnect with
> the global DNS.  It means anyone that wants to look up stuff in the
> private zone has to use one of the private zone servers.  They may also
> have servers on the public Internet.  How do they know which one to query
> for mlbwireless.wan or whatever?
>

dns could interconnect and have secondary, primary, etc, just mirror each others dns, incase a link in the
network breaks between cells, etc.

>
> One of the great attributes of the DNS is global consistency (similar to
> IP addressing).  Don't break it without a _really_ good reason and then
> only with heavy heart.  Quick hacks for short term expediency often wind
> up becoming much bigger problems later on.
>

true

>
> [Yes, I'm passionate about this!  I also realise that people are chipping
> away at global consistency.  They will be sorry later.]
>

true

>
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