Hello Richard,
thank you for telling me that. I was unaware of your "app".
Nice to hear that you made one too.
regards,
Paul
>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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