[7564] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: New Root Name Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Fleming)
Mon Feb 17 18:15:18 1997
From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net>
To: "'George Herbert'" <gherbert@crl.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>, "newdom@vrx.net" <newdom@vrx.net>,
"'Robert E. Seastrom'" <rs@bifrost.seastrom.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:41:37 -0600
On Monday, February 17, 1997 4:04 PM, George Herbert[SMTP:gherbert@crl.com] wrote:
@
@
@ >Also, is it possible that the recent problems NANOG
@ >people have been discussing regarding Root Name Servers
@ >is really the result of these transitions to TRUE Root
@ >Name Servers ?
@
@ If whatever you are doing, however you are implimenting it
@ for whatever reasons, caused corrupted data in h.root-servers.net
@ and the subsequent failures, then you are a menace to the network
@ and should cease and desist activities. You have clearly stated
@ that your servers don't carry the .com domain directly; if you do
@ something which crashes the servers that do carry .com you will
@ likely find yourself sucking air over your ether pipes.
@
@ You could, of course, merely be confused about what happened a
@ few days ago. I would hope this is the case.
@
@
@ -george william herbert
@ gherbert@crl.com
@
@ It's time for another run of my occational disclaimer:
@ I have not been a CRL employee for over 2 years now and in no way
@ am associated with it at this time except as a end-user of shell
@ account services.
@
@
@
This is very interesting....
The activities that I have been referring to are
being coordinated by Mr. Jon Postel (IANA)
and Network Solutions, Inc.
I guess you need to check with Mr. Postel
if you want to accuse people of being a
"menace to the network"....
--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
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