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- From: Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu
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- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 17:59:02 GMT
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- stanley@skyking.oce.orst.edu writes:
- >Then my boss isn't really in charge of the machines at my site, because he
- >has to go through one of the sysadmins to make a configuration change?
-
- There is a bit of a difference between your boss, who is in charge of
- the system admins who make the changes, and me, who is in charge of
- nobody at the site who maintains my DNS records. Unless you think that
- having someone keep an MX record for you somehow makes you in charge of
- the person doing it.
-
- Your attitude is insulting to the many sysadmins out there who
- voluntarily support domains requiring MX support. I used to have an
- open offer to provide nameservice and MX connectivity to absolutely
- any entity anywhere, when I was [ph]ostmaster@cis.ohio-state.edu.
- Anyone who ran such a domain and needed updates simply mailed me the
- update, and I didn't do anything more than check it quickly for
- outright errors so my nameservers wouldn't choke on it. Installation
- of the updates was usually done within the day.
-
- It is singularly inappropriate for you to be accusing others of taking
- the low road of personal insult when you are quite possibly doing more
- of the same, obtusely and without direct reference, than the rest of
- the participants in this pointless argument combined.
-
- Yes, when you are the domain contact of an MX-supported domain, you
- _are_ in charge of the zone file for your domain, and the sysadmin who
- actually manages the nameservers that support your domain has a quite
- obvious and clear responsibility to be responsive to your needs for
- updates. If they weren't prepared for that responsibility, they
- wouldn't have offered to be provide nameservice.
-
- If you're going to be insulting, you could at least have the common
- decency to provide counterexamples, situations where nameserver admins
- have deliberately, or even unknowingly, made life difficult for
- MX-supported domains by _not_ being responsive to such needs.
-
- --karl,
- at one time, technical and zone
- contact for some 40 domains, most
- of which I registered myself
-