maintaining data in DNS, was Re: [HECnet] HECnet performance....

[Brian Hechinger]

On 1/9/2013 12:43 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 01/09/2013 10:50 AM, Brian Hechinger wrote:
Set up a (cisco) tunnel to 130.238.19.60 (and tell me your side IP
address).
I think it's time to come up with something a little better to track all
these.

Thoughts?
      A subdomain under some related domain (perhaps
<sub>.hecnet.update.uu.se?) with the tunnel endpoints as A records?
The problem here is that it isn't searchable. You need to know the A
record name. It would be more useful for me to have it in a db.
    You could do an AXFR query for the subdomain. ;)

You need to setup zone transfer rights for that though, right?

    Did I ever tell you about how I implemented a linked list in TXT
records back in '93?   At one time, Digex' nameservers had the menus for
all the local carry-out restaurants stored, item by item, in the
nameserver.   I wrote a little C program to traverse the linked lists and
print out the menus.

That's disturbing.

And awesome. :)

-brian