[19986] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Oct 1 13:39:26 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:23:35 -0400
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
To: John Harkin <jh@harkin.net>
Cc: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <l03130303b238ed0ce745@[206.184.0.100]>
On October 1, 1998 at 01:37 jh@harkin.net (John Harkin) wrote:
> At 12:22 AM -0700 10/1/98, Barry Shein wrote:
> >So, to spell it out, the question is not whether or not there are
> >non-porn sites in the .to domain. The question is whether or not there
> >are any Tongan activities in the Tongan domain? Since the US Consulate
> >of the Kingdom of Tonga isn't even a Tongan site one wonders just what
> >purpose this domain is serving.
>
> The Tongan consulate in SF *is* Tongan territory, not US. Seems like a
> good place to keep a server to keep its traffic off the satellite to me.
The server with the tongan consulate net address appears to be a web
server for some software company and has nothing to do with Tonga as
far as I can tell.
Is it located at the Tongan consulate?
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