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RE: URGENT! Root Servers not updated

  • From: Rodney Joffe
  • Date: Thu Jul 03 13:42:12 1997

Slow downn a little...

Apparently Mark Kosters is on vacation... so they're trying to track him
down to get this cleared up (this info gleaned as a result of trying to
deal with Genieweb claiming .com authority :-)


Rodney Joffe
Chief Technology Officer
Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company
http://www.genuity.net



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jesse Caulfield [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 03, 1997 10:17 AM
> To:	Gordon Cook
> Cc:	[email protected]
> Subject:	Re: URGENT! Root Servers not updated
> 
> As I understand it (and I really don't so you should stop reading
> now...)
> the purpose of locking down the zone files (or whatever) is not
> necessarily a power grab by NSI, but rather a move to protect the
> people
> and information who appear in that database (or whatever) from
> otherwise
> nefarious miscreants. Folks who want the file will simply have to
> register
> for it.
> 
> I believe information generally wants to be free, but there may be a
> good
> business, technical and socially acceptable case for asking users of
> the
> database to identify themselves.
> 
> Also, it's possible NSI got ahead of themselves and locked stuff up
> before handing out the keys. What with the move and power grid
> failures in
> Herndon, anything's possible.
> 
> --
> JMC
> 
> 
> On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Gordon Cook wrote:
> > has the basic problem that paul vixie complained about been solved?
> > 
> > I called a knowledgable source last night.  That person was aware of
> the
> > change and said that the proper IANA people had been informed in
> advance
> > and had (he thought) not disagreed. the change he believed was not
> for any
> > of the reasons that paul feared.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> > The message below was one of several that came to me today.
> Apparently,
> > when NSI changed the FTP access controls recently for the COM, ORG,
> EDU,  
> > and NET zones, they also disallowed zone transfers from the "A" name
> > server to most of the other name servers.