| That a control panel can  only create a wildcard reference is whack.. What
| happens if they want a subdomain to point to a different IP.. They have to
| request you guys to do it?

No they do it themselves in the DNS editor...

Last reply from me on the subject.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Davis" <james&#167;tekscape-its.com>
To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <dns&#167;dotau.org>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [DNS] Use of wildcard resource records


| Nothing at all...
|
| Just all the control panel software I know of, and have used
| ensim/plesk/cpanel the three big ones. Create A records based off
templates
| when you initially set up the account, and when users want to add a sub
| domain, they simple add a subdomain and the record is created for them..
|
| That a control panel can  only create a wildcard reference is whack.. What
| happens if they want a subdomain to point to a different IP.. They have to
| request you guys to do it?
|
| ----- Original Message ----- 
| From: "Brenden Cruikshank" <brenden.cruikshank&#167;spiritcomm.com.au>
| To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <dns&#167;dotau.org>
| Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 5:41 PM
| Subject: Re: [DNS] Use of wildcard resource records
|
|
| I must admit, I had a laugh at the guy who said his software can't create
A
| records for customer domains - Only wildcards. If I were him I'd be asking
| myself exactly why I'm using this piece of software.
|
| Its a popular control panel software. Google it and you'll see...
|
| Just about everything similar on the market does the same thing...
| Unfortunately we decided to use 3rd party software instead of developing
| something ourselves. What's so bad in that???
|
|   ----- Original Message ----- 
|   From: James Davis
|   To: kim&#167;cynosure.com.au
|   Cc: dns&#167;dotau.org
|   Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 5:48 PM
|   Subject: Re: [DNS] Use of wildcard resource records
|
|
|
|
|   <<snip>>
|   |They were previously blocked, but the auDA Names Policy Review Panel in
|   |2004 determined that "the technical basis for maintained the
restriction
|   |is no longer relevant". I'm not sure what study was performed to come
to
|   |the conclusion, but their final report reads:
|   |
|   |Recommendation 4: Restriction on domain names that match existing TLDs
|   |
|   |Recommendation 4:
|   |
|   |The Panel recommends that the restriction on domain names that match
|   |existing TLDs be removed. Current policy: The auDA Reserved List
|   |contains existing ccTLDs and gTLDs, which means that people cannot
|   |register two-letter domain names such as "uk", "nz" and "jp", or other
|   |domain names such as "com", "name" and "museum". The basis for
reserving
|   |gTLDs and ccTLDs is to comply with IETF standard RFC 1535 (refer to
|   |http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1535.txt?number=1535.)
|   |
|   |Rationale:
|   |
|   |The Panel notes that the technical basis for maintaining the
restriction
|   |is no longer relevant due to DNS technology developments since RFC 1535
|   |was drafted over 10 years ago. The Panel further notes that in the
|   |past the restriction has been imposed inconsistently, and hence some
|   |restricted names are in fact being used with no apparent ill effect.
|
|   Well obviously they were wrong. The RFC may 10 years old, but it's still
| more than valid. As I stated in previous emails, not everyone has a decent
| sysadmin, or patched machines or correctly set up networks.
|
|   Again does anyone see a valid use for these domains? Knowing that more
| than likely they will end up as link farms and utterly devoid of any
useful
| content.
|
|   Restricting these small subset of domains removes the need for auda to
| enforce a draconian policy of "If we don't like you, or the * reference
you
| are using on your domain then we will remove the domain from your
| possession."
|   Is there going to be some sort of mediation process? Or is the time
frame
| set in concrete.. You may be using 30,000 virtual hosts off one domain
| (extreme end of scale) I can just imagine how long that would take to
| replace with actual entries rather than a wildcard.. Don't get me wrong
I'm
| not against wildcards or for them, they have their place and I've used
them
| plenty of times. My gripe is when domains like uk.com.au, com.com.au,
| au.com.au are wildcarded.
|
|
|   What defines "against the best interest of .au" ??
|
|   I must admit, I had a laugh at the guy who said his software can't
create
| A records for customer domains - Only wildcards. If I were him I'd be
asking
| myself exactly why I'm using this piece of software.
|
|   Regards
|   James
|
|
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