[62342] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Change to .com/.net behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Wed Sep 17 16:53:20 2003
From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:15:30 +0300."
<3F68A4C2.5060001@he.iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:52:46 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> How about rewriting all DNS responses to your liking? :-)
>
> Like if you ask for www.register.com, you would get the A record for
> www.verisign.com ?
done.
#fh:i386# ping -c 1 www.register.com
PING www.register.com (216.21.229.101): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.21.229.101: icmp_seq=0 ttl=234 time=79.703 ms
--- www.register.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 79.703/79.703/79.703/0.000 ms
#fh:i386# echo 65.205.249.60 www.register.com >>/etc/hosts
#fh:i386# ping -c 1 www.register.com
PING www.register.com (65.205.249.60): 56 data bytes
^C
--- www.register.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
next? the point i'm illustrating is, as an end user, i'm in charge of
my own name->address translations.
> Responses for the highest bidder!
that would be an interesting form of symbol democracy, if it scaled to
all end users. instead we have a relatively nondemocratic namespace.
