EP.NET ???

Sat Jul 29 00:49:25 UTC 1995

> > 	There have been a number of questions that have been fielded
> > 	wrt the EP.NET domain and traceroute failures within that
> > 	domain.  For your edification, here is a brief note on the EP.NET
> > 	domain.
> 
> Personally I think that this is actually a value-subtracted service,
> as the EP.NET organisation does not run the named boxes, or the
> exchange points.
> 
> It would be much more helpfull the the interfaces that faces the NAP
> and another provider where following each providers naming
> conventions, and had a domain-name that would point the users to the
> organisation that actually operates the boxes.
> 
> You can still provide the service of running the nameservice.

I would tend to agree with this.  I've had a number of customers ask me
"what the heck is this ep.net?"

Dave

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