[MLB-WIRELESS] Re: [Technical] DNS

Tony Langdon tlangdon at atctraining.com.au
Fri Aug 9 12:10:44 EST 2002


I think there are a number of sound technical reasons to consider this
proposal.  I'm for considering it...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Griffiths [mailto:nullptr at tasmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, 9 August 2002 12:06 PM
> To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Re: [Technical] DNS
> 
> 
> This would be very useful wrt using FreeSWAN and Opp. 
> Encryption, and will make thingers easier to remember. 
> 
> 
> On Friday, August 09, 2002 at 11:58:02 AM, Jamie Lovick wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I forwarded this to the Melbourne committee yesterday and 
> have not had
> > any response. I thought I might openly propose it to the list for
> > everyone to consider.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Jamie
> > 
> > --
> > Jamie Lovick    <->  IT Consultant    <-> +614 1479 1681
> > Hobby     : Doof.org                   -> jalovick at doof.org
> > Director  : Drastic Solutions Pty Ltd  -> 
> jalovick at drasticsolutions.com.au
> > ----- Public Relations Officer - the Australian Wireless 
> Association -----
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> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:48:31 +0930 (CST)
> > From: Jamie Lovick <jalovick at doof.org>
> > To: committee at wireless.org.au
> > Subject: Re: [Technical] DNS (fwd)
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This came out of the technical meeting here in Sydney last night ..
> > we're nutting it out now. How do you guy's feel about a 
> national, group
> > independant namespace?
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Jamie
> > 
> > --
> > Jamie Lovick    <->  IT Consultant    <-> +614 1479 1681
> > Hobby     : Doof.org                   -> jalovick at doof.org
> > Director  : Drastic Solutions Pty Ltd  -> 
> jalovick at drasticsolutions.com.au
> > ----- Public Relations Officer - the Australian Wireless 
> Association -----
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:39:15 +0930 (CST)
> > From: Jamie Lovick <jalovick at doof.org>
> > Reply-To: technical at lists.sydneywireless.com
> > To: technical at lists.sydneywireless.com
> > Cc: syd-wireless at lists.sydneywireless.com
> > Subject: Re: [Technical] DNS
> > 
> > On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, evilbunny wrote:
> > > 
> > >   This will come up in the latest tech group minutes as 
> well, however
> > >   for DNS it was decided to have a publicly addressable 
> DNS zone, as
> > >   this can save complications with things later...
> > > 
> > >   in any case we're after suggestions for domain names, 
> preferably as
> > >   short as possible to register and use for this purpose, 
> hopefully
> > >   something as short as possible, was also noted that we are
> > >   Australian and should think about using a .au for this 
> purpose...
> > 
> > .... our first choice (which we've pre-emptively registered) is
> > cw.net.au, which loosely stands for Community Wireless Network
> > Australia.
> > 
> > This is not to say that it will fall under a new association,
> > organization, or group, but will be available namespace for 
> all networks
> > to use.
> > 
> > Another advantage is that it is short, and legal for 
> external DNS if we
> > can use it later ..
> > 
> > Hosts would likely be in the format of:
> > 
> > hostname.sub-region.region.cw.net.au
> > 
> > Such as:
> > 
> > frodo.syd.nsw.cw.net.au
> > 
> > ... and on a first come first serve basis, it could also be:
> > 
> > frodo.cw.net.au
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Jamie
> > 
> > --
> > Jamie Lovick    <->  IT Consultant    <-> +614 1479 1681
> > Hobby     : Doof.org                   -> jalovick at doof.org
> > Director  : Drastic Solutions Pty Ltd  -> 
> jalovick at drasticsolutions.com.au
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