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Greetings: For those interested in filters, and running procmail, I freely give to the Internet community: :0: * ^From:.*JimFleming.* /dev/null Now, in payment for my fine gift, please indulge me, and repeat this mantra three times, in hope that it may guide your fingers at the MUA: Is this message I am sending to NANOG really related to <L4 issues and important enough to occupy their mailboxes? Thanks! -alan > > On Monday, February 17, 1997 6:02 PM, Perry E. Metzger[SMTP:[email protected]] wrote: > @ > @ Jim Fleming writes: > @ > On Monday, February 17, 1997 2:27 PM, Perry E. Metzger[SMTP:[email protected] > @ m] wrote: > @ > @ > @ > @ Jim Fleming writes: > @ > @ > Someone claimed that they could not access the public > @ > @ > Root Name Server operated by Paul Vixie and supported > @ > @ > by the U.S. Government and the National Science Foundation > @ > @ > @ > @ No one claimed that but you. > @ > > @ > Here is the original mail....from matthew kaufman > @ > @ Creative editing of your original claim that Paul Vixie was > @ "filtering" access to the name servers. > @ > @ Of course there are times where you can't reach one nameserver or > @ another. Connections between any two points on the network are not > @ 100% reliable. How you could twist this into the notion that > @ Paul Vixie was filtering connections in the network is probably a > @ question more for your psychiatrist than for you. > @ > @ Perry > @ > @ > > Per the following Paul has admitted that he does > a small amount of filtering...he has not said why. > > @@@@@@@@@@@@@ > ---------- > From: Paul A Vixie[SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 17, 1997 12:02 PM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: Re: F means filtered ? > > > If someone was to attempt a denial of service attact against > > F.root-servers.net I certainly hope Paul would filter the originating > > network to protect nameservice for the other 99.5% of the Internet. > > Actually it would be 99.95% not 99.5%. > > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > > I think the main issue is if ISPs and network operators > are going to rely on TRUE Root Name Servers for > a reliable Internet then those servers should probably > be handled by people who are not just volunteers. > > The Internet has grown from the days when people > installed modems in their basements and waited > for the phones to ring. The U.S. Government via > the NSF/InterNIC is helping to back a serious > telecommunications network. > > I think that most people on the NANOG mailing > list understand these issues. They are more > than capable of judging which Root Name Servers > they use for their operations. In fact, many serious > shops now run their own TRUE Root Name Servers > to provide better service and better stability. > > The IANA and Network Solutions, Inc. are trying > to move to the TRUE Root Name Server configuration > that others have proven works and some experts > claimed would fail. I am somewhat surprised that > more NANOG members are not at the leading > edge of these developments. Such is life. > > -- > Jim Fleming > Unir Corporation > > e-mail: > [email protected] > [email protected] (EDNS/IPv8) > -- Alan Hannan Not Employed Networking, Ltd. email: [email protected] phone: 402/488-0238 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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