Turkey has switched Root-Servers

Tue Sep 27 17:48:46 UTC 2005

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Steve Gibbard wrote:
>
> So the basic story here is not really "Turkey is using a new DNS root,"
> but rather, "users of alternate root servers notice alternate root
> inconsistency," which is exactly what those opposed to alternate roots
> have been predicting.
>
> There's also a real root server in Turkey.  According to
> www.root-servers.org, there's an anycast copy of i.root-servers.net in
> Ankara.

So, I think I'm off the crazy-pills recently... Why is it again that folks
want to balkanize the Internet like this? Why would you intentionally put
your customer base into this situation? If you are going to do this, why
not just drop random packets to 'bad' destinations instead?

I'm confused by the reasoning behind this public-root (alternate root)
problem... It seems to me (minus crazy-pills of course) that there is no
way for it to work, ever. So why keep trying to push it and break other
things along the way?