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> > > And most of the domains never have working name servers at all. The > > > internic rules say you're supposed to have name service first. This > > > isn't always practical, but if speculative domains don't have DNS within > > > a few days, I'd think that'd be enough to wipe the allocations. > > > > So many people keep harping on the point of having name servers first. > > But that's a silly and moot point. The name servers may well be behind > > a firewall and the use of the domain name is intended for internal use > > and needs to be registered externally for the same reason one should use > > allocated address space from ARIN instead of picking random addresses. > > If you are behind a firewall, you can use RFC 1918 addresses. You don't > need addresses from ARIN, and you don't need to pick at random. <insert well known arguments against private addresses here> > Relaxing the requirements for name servers seems like an excellent way > of making the DNS even more broken than it already is. A number of TLDs > (.no being one of them) will *enforce* a minimum of two functioning name > servers for each domain. If you don't like this, you can of course take > your business elsewhere. As do more than a couple of million .com domains. > > This is like telling people they have to be routed on the Internet to be > > able to get an address allocation. > > Sure. Why should they be allocated global addresses when RFC 1918 is > available? There are many reasons. It's all been said before, but if you'd like to have real life examples, reply in private as I don't want to rehash all that on the list. It's bad enough that _this_ thread is even going on at all (should be moved over to some domain list). -- -- *-----------------------------* Phil Howard KA9WGN * -- -- | Inturnet, Inc. | Director of Internet Services | -- -- | Business Internet Solutions | eng at intur.net | -- -- *-----------------------------* phil at intur.net * --
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