[61816] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important changes to the .org tld today.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ren)
Fri Sep 5 10:54:45 2003
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:50:51 -0400
To: neil@DOMINO.ORG (Neil J. McRae),
rjoffe@centergate.com (Rodney Joffe)
From: ren <ren@gweep.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu (NANOG)
In-Reply-To: <20030905143909.336B8497E@genesis.DOMINO.ORG>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
c'mon Neil. Chill out. Rodney's posts have been 100% more content filled
than your own. No need to fill mailboxes around the world with this
crap. Especially not on a Friday.
At 03:39 PM 9/5/2003 +0100, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> > For those of you who *will* have to troubleshoot inconsistent DNS
> > answers between the two systems, you've now had a "head's up".
> > Especially those who hard code the root data (see the Nanog archives for
> > discussions regarding hard coded root hints files). ;-)
>
>Rodney, I couldn't agree with you more, but the post looked like
>a pretty poor attempt to stick one at Verisign. Maybe I got
>the wrong end of the stick.
>
>Its great that the namespace is evolving, but a pity to see
>it being used as point scoring exercise with the competition.
>If random ISP Y came on and said that packets would arrive faster
>through their new BOZOroute engine that controls BGP4 with the
>force and unlike Cisco based ISP's blah blah.
>
>Regards,
>Neil.
>[p.s. can someone tell me whats the difference between a real ISP
>and [I suppose] an unreal ISP?]
