Re: [Sheflug] Who's vuw's hostmaster?

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Sean Liddall wrote:

> Chris J/#6 wrote:
> 
> > infinitum named[1814]: Lame server on 'vuw.ac.nz' (in 'vuw.ac.NZ'?):
> > [202.46.160.4].53 'pubsec.domainz.net.nz'
> > 
> > Someone needs to fix the DNS :)
> 
> That was changed earlier this week due to the waikato.ac.nz secondary
> being decommissioned...  I can't see suits getting in at the weekend to
> fix this little issue.

Even the techs wouldn't.  Domainz, along with the people who designed and
built (and maintain, at a cost of around $30k/month IIRC) their new system
for them, have absolutely *zero* clue.  There are no after-hours support
numbers for the (NOT rare) times when things go wrong... like the fact
their WHOIS server has been down since close of business yesterday.

I'm told they've finally implemented some input validation checking into
their system, though... you used to be able to make the zone loads fail on
their primary nameserver by specifying a nameserver with an illegal
hostname, like... oh...  nz.\ [at] day.com.  That's a real-life case, not just
an absurd example.

Cheers

Richard

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