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Re: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

  • From: E.B. Dreger
  • Date: Tue Sep 16 14:28:22 2003

MD> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:07:41 -0700
MD> From: Mike Damm


MD> Who's up for creating a network of new gTLD servers? I'm sure

I dunno.  We'd be trusting those operating the gTLD network. ;-)


MD> it wouldn't be too hard to reconstruct 90% of the com/net
MD> zones from publicly available data
MD> (http://www.deleteddomains.com/newlist.shtml?cid=11673-11084

It seems to think my Lynx browsing sessions are illegitimate, and
returns a nasty message.


MD> would be a good start). Constantly farming for missed zones,
MD> and maybe even querying the "real" servers for missing data.
MD> The updates would be a day or two behind the "real" zones,
MD> but once you got a good number of eyeballs looking to your
MD> servers instead of VeriSign's, you could probably convince
MD> quite a few registrars to start sending you updates too.

You're essentially having a resolver save cached domains, then
return responses.


MD> I'm sure this breaks many an RFC, and has an unfathomable
MD> number of other problems, but I see it this way: we can

*shrug*

Anycasting AS112 works well.


Eddy
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