Change to .com/.net behavior

Wed Sep 17 20:52:46 UTC 2003

> How about rewriting all DNS responses to your liking? :-)
> 
> Like if you ask for www.register.com, you would get the A record for
> www.verisign.com ?

done.

	#fh:i386# ping -c 1 www.register.com
	PING www.register.com (216.21.229.101): 56 data bytes
	64 bytes from 216.21.229.101: icmp_seq=0 ttl=234 time=79.703 ms
	--- www.register.com ping statistics ---
	1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
	round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 79.703/79.703/79.703/0.000 ms
	#fh:i386# echo 65.205.249.60 www.register.com >>/etc/hosts
	#fh:i386# ping -c 1 www.register.com
	PING www.register.com (65.205.249.60): 56 data bytes
	^C
	--- www.register.com ping statistics ---
	1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

next?  the point i'm illustrating is, as an end user, i'm in charge of
my own name->address translations.

> Responses for the highest bidder!

that would be an interesting form of symbol democracy, if it scaled to
all end users.  instead we have a relatively nondemocratic namespace.