Hi Paul;
Jon said I'd written "an app" not yours. Mines at http://support.open-rsc.org
or something like that. I don't think many poeple use it, they just
mail me instead :-)
At 01:06 PM 7/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Jonathan,
>
>correction--it was not Richard Sexton, but Paul Garrin who has written
>the DNS switcher application, located at http://namespace.org/software.
>(actually the app was designed by Paul Garrin and coded by a programmer).
>
>The application switches windows computers to resolve DNS through a
>set of servers maintained by Name.Space, Inc. and affiliates.
>
>For a list of some sites who use new TLDs serviced by Name.Space,
>please see http://name.space.xs2.net/links
>
>for the record.
>
>regards,
>
>Paul
>
>>Karl,
>>
>>But I said "direct themselves to any DNS server," not "direct themselves to
>>any root server." Aren't we agreeing that any intermediary can set up a
>>DNS resolver, which in turn gets its info from any root server it chooses,
>>and then consumers can point to whatever intermediaries they please. And
>>Richard Sexton has written an app to make it as easy as a click for
>>consumers to choose.
>>
>>So what's stopping market forces, as you say, from creating the nicely
>>nested (but still not completely overlapping) competitive set of DNS
>>services? I'd imagine only the market itself so far--which has been known
>>to miss good opportunities in the space, to be sure. ...JZ
>>
>>At 12:31 AM 7/14/99 , Karl wrote:
>>
>>> > So far as I know, consumers can edit the fields in their network control
>>> > settings for most OSs to direct themselves to any DNS server willing to
>>> > resolve names for them.
>>>
>>>Actually it is a bit more complicated than that.
>>>
>>>Relatively few user machines really point directly at any root server
>>>system.
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