[132826] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking International DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Wed Dec 1 22:58:04 2010
To: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:42:10 -0800."
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:57:40 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <fff8c38cc39c430c0eee25db57a6c177@gandalf.orthanc.ca>, "Lyndon Neren
berg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)" writes:
> > Also, who you will really trust to run it ?
>
> The UUCP network chugged along quite nicely for many years without any
> central authority. (Pathalias and the maps weren't an authority, just
> a hint.)
And there would have been total confusion if there had been multiple
uunet's and a few other well known nodes. UUCP had anchor points.
Just different ones to the DNS.
> --lyndon
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