Operational DNS? Was :Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] IP address range for Geelong?

Brett Murphy murf at alphalink.com.au
Tue Feb 12 22:56:41 EST 2002


Lets find out the legalities of VIX :)

>On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Brett Murphy wrote:
>
>> I am happy to donate DNS services, however I would like to
>> know how this ties in with legal aspects of third party data
>> transmission over wireless etc.
>
>IANAL.
>
>If you run a master for a zone and people load that zone, via the wired
>Internet, that's fine.  If people query this via the wired Internet, no
>problem.
>
>A machine connected to the wired Internet loads the zone as a slave.  It
>is also connected to the [eventual] wireless network and can be queried
>via the wireless network.
>
>No IP packets actually pass across the wired/wireless boundary (only the
>information does).  I _think_ that's enough to remain within the
>regulations.
>
>Whether you can apply the same logic to a proxy server straddling the
>wired/wireless boundary is another interesting question...
>
>Further along into murky-land, the issue of connecting VIX to the wireless

>network...  :)
>
>
>Interestingly, APANA may actually be a very good position to help out the
>wireless efforts, since APANA was officially deemed as not required to
>join the TIO, because it was a "club", not providing Internet access to
>"the general public".
>
>APANA offers organisational memberships.  So if MLB-WIRELESS joins APANA,
>members of MLB-WIRELESS could be deemed APANA members.  This might be a
>really good reason for us to get our act together and incorporate as some
>kind of association (a la footy club, for example - apparently not too
>onerous to administer).
>
>Wow.  And I didn't even have any Weet-Bix for breakfast.
>
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