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After _trying_ to ignore this subject all week, and failing miserably, I now feel that it's time for my $0.02 (USD.) Stoned koala bears drooled eucalyptus spit in awe as Chris Davis exclaimed: > I did mean to say in my last posting, everything *non-resolvable* outside > the ICANN TLD's is resolved to 64.208.49.135 This can actually be a "Good Thing," for unless 64.208.49.135 is a Cray, it's going to be swamped if this thing gets very widely deployed. > Existing new.net TLD domains resolve to whatever their IPs are. > > The plug-in, however, sends ANY query outside the ICANN TLDs to > 64.208.49.135. > This usurps any and every other imaginable future TLD, ie www.bull.shit > They're not advertising a 'shit' domain (um, literally), and yet requests > for 'shit' go to their NS. This can almost be considered to be criminal and malicious. I just hope and pray that it doesn't go very far. > Their scheme, if successful, takes over service for EVERY TLD domain not > already in operation by ICANN. Scary, eh? Yet, people are advocating this farce. > Who's the monopoly? Gee..I dunno? Seriously folks, anybody who is supporting this system must be on some _very_strong recreational pharmaceuticals. As are those who are claiming that it's a political issue and not a technical one. As has been pointed out _several_ times on this list, the RFC's state ONE ROOT. This is The Way God Intended DNS To Be. This isn't a matter of whether ICANN is right or not in their decisions concering new TLDs. Personally, I do not care who runs the root, as long as it works. It could be our fine friends at goatse.cx for all I care. What I *do* care about, however, is that www.whatever.com resolves to the same IP address (or group of IP addresses) whether I am dialed into Earthlink, C&W, AOL, or whatever. Is it too much to ask that we have a consistent view of the DNS namespace? I don't think it is, and I don't think that New.Net's system is going to provide it. I hope that whoever dreamt up the whole New.Net concept gets condemned to the same level of Hell as the spammers and kiddie pr0n peddlers. I am glad that the advocates of this system have revealed themselves on this list, for I wish to laugh loudly and obnoxiously at you when New.Net fails, and it *will* fail. Thankfully, the 2 small systems that I help to admin in my spare time are refusing to support this thing, and so far, I have gotten no official word from my $main_employer as to whether or not they support it or not, but I suspect the answer to be "no". I most certainly hope so, for the sake of humanity and the Internet. Jeff -- "...and the burnt fool's bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the fire." -Joe Zeff in the SDM.
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