[35308] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Tue Mar 6 18:00:10 2001
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:22:53 -0500
From: Joe Provo <joe.provo@rcn.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <3AA5352F.7A7AB92F@opnsys.com>; from kloch@opnsys.com on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:06:23PM -0500
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:06:23PM -0500, Kevin Loch wrote:
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> The more I look at this the more it looks like
> an good old fasioned root hijack. The difference
> this time is they already have the network of servers,
> and they already have some ISPs lined up.
Uh, yah. That was my point re: masses, etc.
We apparently have different assumptions implicit in "adding any new
TLDs". Root servers, like rule of law, is a consensual social delusion.
I'm not one that likes to limit my reachability, so from my perspective
no, they aren't added and I only see them through the subdomains of
new.net. Interesting how aware they are of their present lack of
critical mass; see their explicit instructions for non-windoze OS users.
They don't ask end-users to add their servers in, but rather to simply
extend their resolver search to look under new.net.
Cheers,
Joe
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