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Re: [TenTec] Omni VII / Static IP address

To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VII / Static IP address
From: geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendelson@gmail.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:15:30 +0200
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On Oct 19, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Frank Kirschner wrote:

Don't these DNS servers use password protection? I briefly used one for remote access (can't remember which one, but it wasn't DynDNS), and it had password protection. I would think a reasonable implementation would include that.


No. Anyone can access them. They use password protection to UPDATE them, but the whole point of DNS is that anyone can in the world can use them. In fact that requirement is in the specs.

Geoff.


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