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Re: Two new DNS virtual packages (authoritative-name-server & recursive-name-server)



On 10/24/2013 12:30 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013, at 20:16, Octavio Alvarez wrote:
>> On 22/10/13 09:18, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
>>> I would suggest: caching-name-server
>>
>> *-dns-server would be better, as it is specific enough to avoid name 
>> collision in the future.
> 
> JFTR that should not be any name collisions as the "name server" is term
> defined in RFC1034 and used in all DNS standards out there. Not that it
> matters now when the idea was those was rejected (see my other
> proposal).

RFC1034 and all DNS standards define "name server" within their own
scope. Debian has a lot of software that do not belong to the IETF scope.


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