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Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?


From: Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:42:26 -0800


On 2010-02-16, at 20:35, Frank Bulk wrote:

Our nameservers handle both the authoritative and recursive traffic,

As general advice, and as an aside, don't do that. (Aside from anything else, you're inserting authoritative answers in 
a lookup path that might not be found by a parent delegation, e.g. if you host a domain for someone who subsequently 
takes it elsewhere without telling you.)

If I understand your second sentence correctly, then yes, our DHCP server
hands out the DNS servers, of which one of the three is outside our own
network.

Thanks for the counter-example.


Joe

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