Re: special features - ReadList.com

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special features
\ Geoffroy ARNOUD (7 May 2008)
. \ Stephane Bortzmeyer (7 May 2008)
. . \ Kevin Darcy (8 May 2008)
. . \ Chris Buxton (8 May 2008)
. \ Steven Stromer (7 May 2008)
. \ Steven Stromer (8 May 2008)
. \ Barry Margolin (9 May 2008)
. . \ Stephane Bortzmeyer (14 May 2008)
. \ Barry Margolin (14 May 2008)
. . \ Stephane Bortzmeyer (15 May 2008)

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3 msg	Setting up my MX's records to redirect mail fro...
9 msg	Multiple SOA records?
6 msg	Bind and OpenLDAP
3 msg	bind dlz : using only Mysql
8 msg	Suggestions for coping with this issue
7 msg	Questions about Bind and AD dns integration
14 msg	Overriding MX records to internal gateways
3 msg	Bind + DKIM (ran out of space)
2 msg	time set to UTC
1 msg	Split horizon with forwarding
8 msg	Are failures cached?
2 msg	catch-all
2 msg	Problems Configuring Bind on Windows Server 2003

Subject:	Re: special features
Group:	Bind-users
From:	Barry Margolin
Date:	9 May 2008

In article <fvuvp5$bo8$1>,
Chris Buxton <cbuxton> wrote:

> On May 7, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:27:04PM +0200,
> > Geoffroy ARNOUD <geo.arnoud> wrote
> > a message of 20 lines which said:
> >
> >> 2- Spoof of Name error response with a static IP address, in order
> >> to better control the user experience. For example, a user
> >> requesting www.unknownhost.com would not get an error from his
> >> browser, but would get the configured static IP address
> >> instead. Behind this IP address could be hosted a web server or
> >> somethine else.
> >
> > That is a very bad idea and I'm glad it is not possible with BIND.
>
> I believe OpenDNS does this.

Only if you ask for it in your account preferences.

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Barry Margolin, barmar
Arlington, MA
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