From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 20:30:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.akalink.com (akalink.com [64.23.81.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54DE637B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfortin@akalink.com) Received: (qmail 33984 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2001 03:28:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO node00) (64.23.81.14) by akalink.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2001 03:28:59 -0000 Message-ID: <000d01c0ceca$c7856e20$0200320a@node00> Reply-To: "Jonathan Fortin" From: "Jonathan Fortin" To: "Tony Landells" Cc: References: <200104270326.NAA25642@tungsten.austclear.com.au> Subject: Re: *.example.net Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:33:08 -0400 Organization: Akalink Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The whole point of using wildcard DNS in my regard is if you got a production website, you would point *.yourdomain.com to the IP address to redirect impotent users to your homepage, then you can rewrite the HTTP_HOST header with mod _rewrite making it seem like they didn't mistype it which is actually good, but either then that I wouldnt see the use. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Landells" To: "Christopher Leigh" Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:26 PM Subject: Re: *.example.net > I've never heard of anyone doing wildcard A records... > > Back in the days when people weren't very good at hiding hostnames > in email they used to use wildcard MX records. They were generally > considered a necessary evil, but people who had the skill were advised > to hide the hostnames in email instead and abolish the wildcard MX. > > The reason I mention this is that the fundamental thing is the same-- > you're trying to solve a problem that shouldn't exist. > > The whole point of DNS is to tell you the address for valid servers. > If you return an address for any hostname in your domain, then people > who have mis-typed a hostname will then have to wait for their data > (HTTP, SMTP, telnet, whatever) connection to time out, rather than > coming back immediately and telling them the hostname is wrong. > > Mind you, I can see some applications for this, but the majority of the > advantages are spurious at best. And since the only place you should > be advertising an RFC 1918 address like 192.168.1.1 is on your internal > network, all you're going to do is annoy your users. > > Cheers, > Tony > -- > Tony Landells > Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 > Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 > Level 4, Rialto North Tower > 525 Collins Street > Melbourne VIC 3000 > Australia > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message