Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

Wed Sep 17 04:44:13 UTC 2003

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 04:27:05 -0000, Paul Vixie <vixie at vix.com>  said:

> speaking for f-root, we won't be cooperating with anything like that.
> we do not edit the zone files we serve.  they come from iana, and if
> you want something different served, you'll have to talk to iana.  i
> cannot speak for the other rootops but i suspect that their answers
> might be compatible with, if not downright similar to, f-root's.

Amen to that - the guys who run the *root* nameservers are not the problem.
They get DDoSed, and even when not DDoSed, 98% of the stuff thrown at them
is trash - and the servers keep going anyhow.  The closest thing to a controversial
hijacking in like 20 years has been one test by Postel.

Yes, there's been issues with some TLDs regarding who the rightful registrar is,
but that's IANA's call not the root nameservers.  And there's been issues with
the management of a TLD going bonzo in various ways - but again, that's not
the fault of the root itself.

Quite frankly, if the rest of the net ran as well and sanely as the guys
who run the root nameservers, we'd all have lots lower blood pressures... ;)
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