Comment 4 for bug 1868232

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote :

It would be nice to address the wildcard DNS entries, as those have a potential for abuse, and can be endlessly confusing if you're not prepared for them.

In the meantime though, this plan sounds good to me.

I'm worried about collisions, where multiple providers may use us_west_2, us%west2, uswest~2, etc.

Some phrases read differently if the spacing is removed. The usual examples are powergen_italia and experts_exchange, but perhaps there's more realistic phrases for region names. (This seems quite small problem compared to the overall wildcard DNS entries, though.)

Reversible transformations are usually better but since we're presumably doing this with business partners, the trouble cases may fall under "don't do that" kinds of categories.

Are these actual problems? Probably it's fine but I thought I'd mention them just in case someone else with more context or creativity can make more of them.

Thanks