[62731] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen Massar)
Sun Sep 21 16:04:38 2003
From: "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: "'Paul Vixie'" <paul@vix.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:00:56 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20030921194905.1617F1394B@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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Paul Vixie wrote:
> > > > website: www.alt-servers.org.
> > >
> > > what a BAD idea. worse than anything else on the table or in
> > > existence today.
> >
> > Splitting the root you mean? I'm not sure there was enough info on that
> > site to come to any other conclusion, but I wanted to make sure.
>
> this is just dns piracy, dressed up in a morality play. it
> won't hold.
Fun parts: b + c don't exist.
And the com part is from .... verisign..
$ dig @a.alt-servers.org com. ns
;; ANSWER SECTION:
com. 157350 IN NS L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 157350 IN NS M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 157350 IN NS A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 157350 IN NS B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 157350 IN NS C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
<SNIP>
Maybe with the bind patch though, but this nothing more than
your home grown DNS server in any case. No "advantage" there...
The *ROOT* is good, .com/.net isn't.
Greets,
Jeroen
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