[34087] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sat Jan 27 22:10:36 2001
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:57:00 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20010128001431.45EDB4@proven.weird.com>; from "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com> on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:14:31PM -0500
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On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:14:31PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> And, as it happens, currently there is only one recognised DNS, with one
> set of authoritative root servers.
>
> Anyone who says otherwise is just one of those renegades who can safely
> be ignored and they *will* go away.
Well, actually, Greg, there are multiple root clusters, with multiple
sets of authoritative root servers -- but only one of those is
consecrated by DoC/ICANN.
The other ones do exist, do work, and so far as I'm aware, there are
not currently any rogue redelegations of "traditional" gTLDs, nor many,
if any, collisions of non-traditional gTLDs, amongst the various ones.
I don't let the people on DOMAIN-POLICY get away with *overstating* the
case on alternative roots, I shouldn't let you get away with
*understating* the case, neither. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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