[58744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .mil domain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (listuser@numbnuts.net)
Fri May 30 15:03:44 2003
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 13:57:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: listuser@numbnuts.net
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: stephen@sprunk.org, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030530144245.049bbec0@marble.sentex.ca>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> At 01:15 PM 30/05/2003 -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>
> >For the same reason anyone else accepts their routes -- because they want to
> >be able to reach them. If they don't want to reach _you_, that's their
> >choice.
>
> As Sean Donelan pointed out, the fact that 2 of the root name servers are
> inside their network, there is more to the issue than you suggest.... I for
> example want people in Australia to be able to reliably lookup DNS info on
> my domains. The .mil people have decided to hamper this process.
I agree. The root servers should have no filtering in place to block any
demographics (unless of course a given node is DoSing them).
The last time I tried to contact a .mil to report an open relay that was
being abused, I was accused of being a spammer that had "hacked" their
server. Since that time I reject .mil mail.
Justin
