William and all,
Excuse me William, I thought Vixie was running F.ROOT-SERVER.NET.
In fact I never heard of an R.ROOT-SERVER.NET. Has anyone else??
William X. Walsh wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:48:55 -0700 (PDT), Greg Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >Now, on the other hand, it may not be very well known that consumers
> >have choices, or that there might be reasons why they should exercise
> >the choices they have. Is this ICANN's fault? (Note, Mike Roberts is
> >on record as stating that users can take name resolution from
> >alternate roots if they wish.)
>
> How gracious of him! *sarcasm intended*
> The simple fact is that he knows that the current root servers, as the
> "default" install (heck, what do you expect, Vixie makes Bind, Vixie
> runs the r.root-servers.net), will always be the dominating root, and
> basically dictate to the others (For if they don't follow the
> dictates, they will lose whatever ISP support they have).
>
> --
> William X. Walsh
> General Manager, DSo Internet Services
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax:(209) 671-7934
>
> "The fact is that domain names are new and have unique
> characteristics, and their status under the law is not yet clear."
> --Kent Crispin (June 29th, 1999)
Regards,
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