[MLB-WIRELESS] Melbwirelses DNS and Domain Names

[Carl Johnston]

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 15:59, Ryan Abbenhuys wrote:
> What happens if someone uses a proper address, say www.wantirna-ap1.net.au
> which resolves to 10.10.128.1 by using the wireless.org.au box, but then
> someone out on the net starts using that IP address for a real site.
> Is that possible?

This won't happen.  The 10.0.0.0/8 (it is /8, right?) space is reserved
for private networks - this is where the Addressing WG comes into play..
;)


> How do we work out where the DNS server goes?  If we use a DNS on
> wireless.org.au for resolving real domains, and wireless domains, it means
> people have to be connected to the internet at the time to resolve anything
> on the wireless side. Am i on the right track there?
> So these people would have to change their DNS to one on the wireless
> network when they aren't dialed into the internet so they can resolve
> wireless network addresses.

I'd suggest that there would be a number of name servers accessible at
any one time both live to the Internet and/or to the WAN.  If you had an
Internet connection, then you could simply use your ISP's name servers
to resolve .wireless.org.au names.  If not, then you would use the
internal name servers (or setup a caching or mirrored server yourself)
to resolve.  Depending on the rate of change on the zone data, these
servers may only need to be updated once a month/week.


> Would it be best to get volunteers with 24/7 internet connections to run
> DNS servers for each region that allow people to resolve wireless network
> domains and also internet domains?

I think that this will occur.  There would probably be a sub-set of the
Naming and Addressing WG that would take care of distributing zone
files, arranging access to the name servers, and generally co-ordinating
the MW DNS structure.


"2c?"


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