[35965] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Multiple Roots are "a good thing" - Karl Auerbach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Tue Mar 20 04:14:26 2001
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: "Mike Batchelor" <mikebat@tmcs.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 04:12:20 -0500 (EST)
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[ On Monday, March 19, 2001 at 16:36:28 (-0800), Mike Batchelor wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: Multiple Roots are "a good thing" - Karl Auerbach
>
> How is adding .new.net to the end of a domain name any different from
> pre-pending 10-10-220 to a phone number? if you sign up with AT&T, the
> 10-10-220 becomes transparent, just as if you install the new.net plugin.
Ah ha! but that's an entirely different question than that of
considering multiple authoritative DNS "roots". Suddenly you elimiate
the technical problems entirely.
(not that long-distance provider "prefixes" have really done the
consumer any good -- most people just complain about the idiocity of it
all)
--
Greg A. Woods
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