On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:04:40AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
ISC has had very little in the way of problems as a .ZA slave
its the ac.za and co.za messes
Try registering a domain with co.za if any of your nameservers sits on an
RFC2317 classlessly delegated reverse, and where your
bert hubert said:
[SNIP]
I argued about this with them *at length* and they kept inventing more
reasons why I was breaking RFC compliance. They even told me they
couldn't accept my nameservers as these would 'waste bandwidth' which
was 'terriby expensive' in South Africa. It probably is,
Yes it is ..
And I am aware of the great deal of assistance you provided for
the initial UUCP links here.
http://www.nsrc.org/about.html
However, there is a larger arrogance he is battling - a poorly
informed committee writing bad legislation that presumes they can
do a better job of
what i did was negligible. many folk in za, vic shaw, jacot
guillarmod, alan barrett, chris pinkham, and then the whole uucp
crew up on the reef, did the real work. but mike did push it,
though with vastly excessive use of violence.
However, there is a larger arrogance he is battling - a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randy Bush) writes:
well, za and some of its principal subdomains are the highest error
rate zones i secondary or use. but i can imagine a different part
of the government doing an even funkier job. the contest is likely
keen.
ISC has had very little in the way of
ISC has had very little in the way of problems as a .ZA slave
its the ac.za and co.za messes
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
but semi-clued governments and semi-clued folk in general seem to
be attracted to the domain name space. i suspect it is one of
those areas that appear simpler, more powerful, and more lucrative
than they actually are. running a cctld well is a major
The net worked before DNS existed
'cept we hit this little scaling problem
I'm more concerned about well-meaning people and Secure-BGP than
DNS.
run a few thousand zones, and you'll worry about the dns too
randy
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03548.html
http://www.namespace.org.za/
Folks,
A choice quote (not mine) from the URLs above :-
I write in my capacity as the person who brought the Internet to South
Africa, who got permission for the country to use the ZA namespace in
I write in my capacity as the person who brought the Internet to
South Africa,
that must be mike lawrie. only he has such misplaced arrogance.
randy
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