[104] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root name servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sat Jul 29 12:45:48 1995
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 09:43:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: "John A. Russo - Geonet Communications" <johnr@geo1.geo.net>
cc: Peter Lothberg <roll@stupi.se>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9507291533.AA02283@geo1.geo.net.>
On Sat, 29 Jul 1995, John A. Russo - Geonet Communications wrote:
> This is an excellent idea Peter!
>
> > How about trying to move some of the root name servers to the exchange
> > points?
> > For security and stability reasons (aswell as political) they should
> > not be run by a single organisation.
What about hijacking the root name servers? Here's the scenario.....
A group of people who dislike the Internic's restrictive policies re the
namespace get together and set up new root domain servers that offer new
toplevel domains like .FAM, .INC, .KLINGON, .BIZ, .GOD, etc... They also
delegate the old domains to the existing root nameservers for .COM, .EDU,
etc. They offer the list of new root nameservers to anyone who wishes to
access the new expanded namespace. All a sysadmin needs to do is replace
the cache file used to prime named.
They should also offer email forwarding so that people stuck with a
reactionary sysadmin can still email a new domain by using addresses of
the form person%one.true.god@reactionary.org
Could people be plotting this even as we speak? Is it a good idea? Would
it solve the namespace problems we currently have?
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