[35366] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Batchelor)
Wed Mar 7 17:26:36 2001
From: "Mike Batchelor" <mikebat@tmcs.net>
To: <NANOG@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:13:58 -0800
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> Why does anyone care?
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> just setup your dns servers to point *.(newnetstlds) to your own web site
> saying that they dont work.
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Is that any better of an idea than using new.net in the first place? It
probably would have worked, for some definition of "worked", had you not
deliberately made it fail. That's dishonest, and if your users have any
brains, they'll find friends for whom it does work, and will come
complaining to you - and rightfully so.
> Christian
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