[62242] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Wed Sep 17 00:38:12 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:38:14 -0400
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <g3oexkhwqa.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 12:20 AM 17/09/2003, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > The next version of the root-servers.net hints file should not have any
> > netSOL owned root servers in it. That will make the transition easier.
>
>excuse me for the harsh language, but that's just silly. verisign's root
>name servers (a-root and j-root) are professionally run by some of the best
>dns techs in the industry. nothing that's happening with dot-com or dot-net
I trust your assessment of the DNS techs. But what about the DNS tech's
bosses? They ordered some pretty lumpy things be done with .com and .net.
Given that track record, whats to stop them from ordering the GTLD techs
from doing something equally lumpy.
---Mike
