How common is lack of DNS server diversity?

Sun Jan 28 00:09:06 UTC 2001

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:23:08PM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> You obviously don't understand the difference between "concept" and
> "definition".
> 
> www.open-rsc.org
> www.dnso.net
> www.icann.org
> www.dnso.org

Very interesting..

http://www.dnso.org/constituency/gtld/gtld.html:

: Root servers.
: 	The list of 13 current root servers
: 	ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/named.root 
: 	The map of 13 current root servers
: 	http://www.wia.org/pub/rootserv.html 
: 	IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root
: 	http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2826.txt 

http://www.icann.org/committees/dns-root/y2k-statement.htm

: The root of the Internet namespace consists of a single file, the root
: zone file, which describes the delegations of the top level domains and
: the associated records necessitated by the DNS protocol to implement those
: delegations. Currently, this file is maintained by Network Solutions
: Incorporated of Herndon, Virginia, USA and is made available to the 12
: secondary servers from the primary a.root-server.net. Change control of this
: file is held by the IANA with changes, typically modifications of the name
: servers for top level domains, being made approximately once or twice a week.

I can't find anything that supports your comments at open-rsc.org, and I'm
going to assume that you threw in dnso.net as a joke, since a) you own the
domain, b) it looks like it was written by a 14 year old and c) nobody would
take a site seriously that said it was "moving to a more dynamic architecture,
using MS FrontPage2000".

--Adam

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