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> > What's so difficult to understand about what Paul said? > > You don't understand how DNS works. I think he does. > As long as the Internet's cache files on each and every system out there > point at "a" in their file, there is the potential to break the namespace. Heck, I guess that would be true of "F" as well. Shall I break the name space? No? Why not? Is it because coherence has great value? OK, so how shall we determine the synchronization signal for this coherence -- that is, who can vary and who is required to follow? The answer is that the owner of a zone can vary, and the publishers of a zone have to follow. > One rogue server in a confederation will cause serious problems. Which is why I expect that the current InterNIC contractor (NSI) will do whatever the owners of its published but unowned zones (".", MIL, EDU, GOV) tell them to do. > NSI has defacto control, because getting them out of the cache files is a > long and slow process, and until they ARE out their answers will be > believed. If NSI tried to become a DNS pirate, I expect that IANA would publish a new "named.cache" file without NSI in it, and that the world would switch in a week or less. Nobody likes DNS pirates -- or hadn't you noticed, Karl? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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