Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:38:48 -0500 From: Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com> To: Mark.Andrews@isc.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.7-R-p3: j.root-servers.net Message-ID: <20030127053848.GA65764@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <200301270358.h0R3wsEN057216@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <20030127004815.Y10725@aqua.lan.palfreman.com> <200301270358.h0R3wsEN057216@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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Just for the record, I wrote "... is evil" not the nonsense about OpenNIC. Please don't misattribute idiocy to me - my reputation is all I've got. Barney Wolff On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:58:54PM +1100, Mark.Andrews@isc.org wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Barney Wolff wrote: > > > > > And of course, using the "alternate" roots is evil. > > > > Why is that then? I'm slaving the OpenNIC ones here without any > > trouble. DNS just being an information service in the end I can't see > > why there has to be the only one of its type. In fact, how can it be a > > standard if there is only one implementation? :-) > > Did you ever here the term "natual monopoly". The DNS root > is a example of such. When you try to change it all you > do is reproduce it with additional unnecessary baggage like > have to find all the "roots" to register the new TLD in. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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