Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?

Tue Jul 5 18:32:16 UTC 2005

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Steve Gibbard
> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 1:20 AM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name? 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 

[ SNIP ]

> That doesn't mean a competing system wouldn't work, for those who are 
> using it.  They'd just be limited in who they could talk to, and that 
> generally wouldn't be very appealing.

Are you just making noise here, Steve? That doesn't really
say anything outside of status quo.

> That said, a big country implementing a new DNS root on a 
> national scale 
> may not have that problem.  The telecom world is already full 
> of systems 
> that don't cross national borders. In the US case, think of 
> all the cell 
> phones that have international dialing turned off by default, 

That's a poor example. That's between the subscriber and their
carrier, not a technical limitation. 

> and all the 
> 800 numbers whose owners probably aren't at all bothered by their 
> inability to receive calls from other countries.

That's also a poor example since there are work arounds for
this technical issue.

> 
> A system that would limit my ability to talk to people in 
> other countries 
> doesn't sound very appealing to me.  

I know. I know. Don't feed the trolls.

-M<