[96664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interesting new dns failures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Mon May 21 10:27:34 2007
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 14:26:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <10212.1179755019@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: bmanning@karoshi.com, Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 21 May 2007 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:38:56 -0000, bmanning@karoshi.com said:
> > if you can get concensus to remove .com, i'm sure the roots would
> > be willing to help out.
>
> Whose bright idea *was* it to design a tree-hierarchical structure, and then
> dump essentially all 140 million entries under the same node, anyhow? :)
>
> I'll bet a large pizza that 90% or more could be relocated to a more
> appropriate location in the DNS tree, and nobody except the domain holder
> and less than a dozen other people will notice/care in the slightest. Now
There's an interesting read from NRIC about this problem: "Signposts on
the information superhighway" I think it's called. Essentially no one
aside from propeller-head folks understand that there is something aside
from 'com' :( take, for example, discussions inside the company formerly
known as uunet about email addresses: "Yes, you can email me at
chris@uu.net", "uunet.com?", "no, uu.net", "uu.net.com?", "nope, just
uu.net". Admittedly it was with sales/marketting folks, but still :(
I wonder how the .de or .uk folks see things? Is the same true elsewhere?
-Chris
