[3468] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The root nameservers will be replaced August 1st
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Tue Jul 16 22:50:59 1996
From: Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>
To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 21:45:33 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960716180039.18132D-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Jul 16, 96 06:05:03 pm
Reply-To: alan@gi.net
Michael, et. al.
] If the information in the following message means what I think it means in
] then somebody is colocating an entire new set of root nameservers at
] exchange points within the USA if not internationally.
]
] Can they do this? Or are they bluffing?
Of course they can do that. And I can start queuing data at my
router to send all tcp packets w/ 1000 bytes, and set the priority
bit. I can also send a constant 1M ping stream to every ISP's web
server, and I can finger every machine every 5 minutes to see if
Sean is on to ask him a question. I can draw OC3 PVCs between
the NAPs and sell web content more cheaply than any other ISP can
draw a nationwide network. I can send appletalk packets across my
WAN and attempt to send them to my peers, I can build my own IXP
and sponser, in addition to IP: IPX; and Appletalk traffic! In
fact, I can claim 10/8, and if I have enough interests in the
world, and enough people can be bullied into it, I can route that
to you, and it can appear in the global tables!
The larger issue, is who cares? Who will give a whoot about what
I do? And what are the ramifications of them doing it?
Concisely, how will people deal with it?
Perhaps I missed the intent of your letter. Are you implying
that an official body is making a change in policy such that a new
hw/sw system is used and their geographic points change from
pseudo random placement, to NAP/IXP placement?
Or perhaps you were a bit dismayed that some entrepeneurs are
trying to make things better outside the antiquated^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H 'system'?
-alan
Chief Promulgator, Second Class, Anarchic Intelligentsia
ps -> this system wanted NAP/IXPs to be a free socialist meeting
point for providers (beyond hw/colo costs), as well, but
capitalist forces changed the economics when people stopped
peering freely.....
