From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 2 20:59:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA25849 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:59:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from pinky.junction.net (pinky.junction.net [199.166.227.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA25843 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:59:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sidhe.memra.com (sidhe.memra.com [199.166.227.105]) by pinky.junction.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA00312; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:59:31 -0800 Received: from localhost (michael@localhost) by sidhe.memra.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA05241; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:53:40 -0800 Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:53:39 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Dillon To: Steven Ames cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www.edns.com In-Reply-To: <199704030310.WAA22497@news.cioe.com> Message-ID: Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Steven Ames wrote: > Has anyone looked at www.edns.com? They offer a secondary set of > top level domain servers that house a LOT more TLDs. Their documentation > suggests replacing the standard InterNIC cache file with theirs, but I > find that just adding a second line for > > cache . named.edns eDNS is considered to be a rogue outfit by most ISP's and other Internet luminaries. If you want to see what the "official" folks are doing to create new TLD's have a look at http://www.iahc.org. In fact, you should consider signing the gTLD Memorandum of Understanding since service providers are being invited to sign. Every organization that signs the MoU will have a seat on the Policy Advisory Board that will influence the future management of global generic TLD's. Note that eDNS has some TLD's that conflict with the IAHC list of 7 new TLD's. There is also another rogue outfit called namespace that also has TLD's which conflict with both eDNS and IAHC. > I only ask this question here because I wondered if FreeBSD intends > to add their root servers to the standard cache file distributed > with FreeBSD. It'd sure be a shot in the arm for their project... A shot in the arm with pheno-barbitol is *NOT* what the FreeBSD project needs, thank you. > Anyone got the pros/cons on this? Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com