[62245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Sep 17 00:47:41 2003
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 04:27:05 -0000."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:44:13 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 04:27:05 -0000, Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com> said:
> speaking for f-root, we won't be cooperating with anything like that.
> we do not edit the zone files we serve. they come from iana, and if
> you want something different served, you'll have to talk to iana. i
> cannot speak for the other rootops but i suspect that their answers
> might be compatible with, if not downright similar to, f-root's.
Amen to that - the guys who run the *root* nameservers are not the problem.
They get DDoSed, and even when not DDoSed, 98% of the stuff thrown at them
is trash - and the servers keep going anyhow. The closest thing to a controversial
hijacking in like 20 years has been one test by Postel.
Yes, there's been issues with some TLDs regarding who the rightful registrar is,
but that's IANA's call not the root nameservers. And there's been issues with
the management of a TLD going bonzo in various ways - but again, that's not
the fault of the root itself.
Quite frankly, if the rest of the net ran as well and sanely as the guys
who run the root nameservers, we'd all have lots lower blood pressures... ;)
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