[35291] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Kamantauskas)
Tue Mar 6 13:59:38 2001
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:54:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Alex Kamantauskas <alexk@tugger.net>
To: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
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> 2. Are there differences between how New.net domain names and
> .COM/.NET/.ORG domain names work? There are some differences, but in many
> ways the domain names work the same.
>
Nope. You query a resolver, and it returns the best answer that it
knows. Resolvers only do what you tell them to do.
> One difference is that in order for people to see New.net domain names
> they must be either accessing the Internet through one of our many ISP
> partners or they must have downloaded and installed our Web browser
> plug-in.
>
In order to use the New.net names, you just need to query a resolver that
knows about them. The '.com/.net/.org' block has a distinct advantage,
since most resolvers find out about their servers by default.
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Alex Kamantauskas
alexk@tugger.net
