[119697] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan White)
Thu Nov 26 13:26:42 2009
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:25:49 -0600
From: Dan White <dwhite@olp.net>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <96B33E83-1F14-4BEF-A580-BDA72CA6F65C@virtualized.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 26/11/09 07:37 -0800, David Conrad wrote:
>There are folks on this list who work for ISPs which are doing wildcards/synthesis/etc. They (or, more likely their management) can tell you there are obvious business reasons why they do wildcards/synthesis/etc. Perhaps I'm overly cynical, but I suspect that until those business reasons go away, shining a flash light will probably just result in more ISPs implementing wildcards/synthesis/etc.
That's a disagreement we'll have to have. Anytime this issue has been brought
up in a public setting (here, slashdot, etc.) has resulted in terrible press
and even corrective action. In particular, Network Solutions' attempt to
at this at the .com level was corrected. Of course I don't know what, if
any, ICANN pressure has to do with that, but the flash light practice was
apparently successful.
--
Dan White
