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> > website: www.alt-servers.org.
>
> what a BAD idea. worse than anything else on the table or in
> existence today.

Splitting the root you mean? I'm not sure there was enough info on that
site to come to any other conclusion, but I wanted to make sure.

this is just dns piracy, dressed up in a morality play. it won't hold.

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Paul Vixie wrote:

> > > website: www.alt-servers.org.
> >
> > what a BAD idea. worse than anything else on the table or in
> > existence today.
>
> Splitting the root you mean? I'm not sure there was enough info on that
> site to come to any other conclusion, but I wanted to make sure.

this is just dns piracy, dressed up in a morality play. it
won't hold.

Fun parts: b + c don't exist.
And the com part is from .... verisign..

$ dig @a.alt-servers.org com. ns

;; ANSWER SECTION:
com. 157350 IN NS L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 157350 IN NS M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 157350 IN NS A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 157350 IN NS B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 157350 IN NS C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
<SNIP>

Maybe with the bind patch though, but this nothing more than
your home grown DNS server in any case. No "advantage" there...

The *ROOT* is good, .com/.net isn't.

Greets,
Jeroen