[volunteers] brie

[Rick Moen]

[Adding back "volunteers" to the recipients list.  Please remember the
needs of our collective understanding.  Thanks.]

Quoting Paul Reiber (reiber at gmail.com):

> | > And is it wise for the DNS contact to be root at svlug.org?
> |
> | That will do.  I cannot offhand think of a scenario
> | where that is a functional liability.
> |
> Rick - does anyone even GET any email that might get sent to that address?

Not that I've ever seen.

Daniel is referring to the SOA (start of authority) contact e-mail
address in the SVLUG zonefiles.  To see that, do:

$ dig -t soa svlug.org +short

(and equivalent commands for svlug.com and svlug.net)

Note that _an_ address is required in the SOA header of any DNS zonefile.
Period.  You cannot _not_ have one.

Per RFCs:

* e-mail in SOA record of "normal" domain can be used as fallback contact 
for domains listed in postmaster.
* e-mail in SOA record of "reverse" domain can be used as 
fallback/escallation contact for IPs in in ip-whois.

root is a reasonable choice because SVLUG routes root's mail rationally.
Having the SOA contact be out-of-domain is pointless because "Dude, your
domain is broken" isn't something you're likely to hear via the SOA
contact record address if nobody can pull down your zonefiles to -get-
the SOA record.

Basically, we're wasting time on trivia, here.  I've already thought
this through pretty carefully.