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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Niels Bakker <niels at euro.net>
To: <dns-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: mercredi 25 novembre 1998 0:01
Subject: Re: DNS recommendations - the paper


>Quoth Randy Bush:
>
>>> @ IN SOA ns.isp.net. netmaster.isp.net.
>>>          ( 1998100100 86400 3600 604800 345600 )
>> s/netmaster/hostmaster/   see RFC 2142
>> 
>> or, i think it was piet who recommended being conservative, and do not
>> relying on aliases, rather use a real mailbox name.
>
>So that person can safely go on a two-week holiday?
>
>I'd rather put in a real hostname and not rely on MX records, including
>possible breakage.  If you're real paranoid, register your domain also as
>a host with InterNIC (sort of 'ibm.com'), make its address the address of
>your primary mail exchanger; even if InterNIC has a minor screw-up - like
>"forgetting" your NS records - there's a chance your A record survives.
>
>This happened some time ago, unfortunately (for IBM, who were one of the
>domains lost this way) the host known at InterNIC as 'ibm.com' didn't run
>any SMTP daemon.
>
>(Remember that sendmail falls back to A records if it can't find any MX
> records for a host.)
>
>Good comments for the rest, I agree wholeheartedly with all of them, also 
>with those from other people.
>
>Take care,
>
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