people,developers.fedoraproject.org

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Thu Mar 1 04:38:23 UTC 2007


Once upon a time Wednesday 28 February 2007, Warren Togami wrote:
> Matthew Galgoci wrote:
> >> Never underestimate what you can do with wildcard DNS :-)
> >
> > Heh.
> >
> >>> 2) worries about people creating a username "admins" and thus getting
> >>> "admins.fedoraproject.org"
> >>
> >> You're on your own on this one :)
> >
> > Pre-existing domains take precedence over wildcard.
> >
> > Someone could also setup asshats.fedoraproject.org too. Just something to
> > ponder.
>
> Have we considered that *.fedoraproject.org is precious enough that we
> don't want arbitrary names there?
>
> Even if users don't do something malicious or stupid, it is possible
> that somebody would create a name that we will want to use for a service
> later.
>
> If we really want this, why not do username at fedorasomethingelse.org
> instead?

I brought fedorapeople.org  and will donate it to fedora.   So we have that to 
use.  it will let us keep them separate.

Dennis

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