[119712] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Nov 27 11:52:55 2009
To: James Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:57:46 CST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:51:29 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:57:46 CST, James Hess said:
> Just because someone registered EXAMPLE.COM with one particular
> internet registry, doesn't mean they own the lookup result for every
> DNS server in the world. All they have paid for is the creation
> and maintenance of entries in one particular shared database, and
> they only have control for the (large) subset of DNS servers that
> utilize that particular database.
>
> People can start new DNS roots, old DNS roots can be superceded,
> there can even be multiple conflicting private roots.
Those who didn't read RFC2826 are condemned to repeat it.
Of course, it's *your* help desk that gets to answer the phone and explain
to your users why www.giraffes-r-us.com went to a nice page of cute pictures
of giraffes when they were at Starbucks, but when they got home to show
their kids, it was giraffe pr0n.
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