[35314] in North American Network Operators' Group
Tower of Babbel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph T. Klein)
Tue Mar 6 19:01:11 2001
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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 15:01:31 -0500
From: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>
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DNS "binds" the Internet together. I would contend that
splitting "." is a very dangerous thing to do.
This type of action *will* turn the Internet into a
Tower of Babbel.
So what good is the browser plugin to my mail server?
How about my web cache?
Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> I wonder how many unsophisticated network operators are going to give up the
> existing root server infrastructure for this obviously problematic layer:
>
> ;
> . 3600000 IN NS ns1.newdotnet.net.
> ns1.newdotnet.net. 3600000 IN A 206.132.100.43
> ;
> . 3600000 IN NS ns2.newdotnet.net.
> ns2.newdotnet.net. 3600000 IN A 64.209.213.126
> ;
> . 3600000 IN NS ns3.newdotnet.net.
> ns3.newdotnet.net. 3600000 IN A 209.151.233.13
> ;
>
> yeah. I want to rely on three root level name servers. Really, I do! I do!
> Can't we knock off some of the root servers like the one at MIT or
> something? Besides, I'm certain that idealabs! has much better experience
> in creating scalable nameserver systems than Vix, etc. <cough>
>
> The stub config is interesting, though. Maybe run it until ICANN figures out
> what they are going to do. Since the users pay the bills for the most
> part...
>
> K
>
>
>
Other DNS dialog clipped off ...
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Joseph T. Klein +1 414 915 7489
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Adelphia Business Solutions joseph.klein@adelphiacom.com
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