On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:25:13 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > I have tried using "outside DNS's" too, but only as an experiment > to see if I can. Yes, I can. I don't know why I can. I don't know > why an "outside DNS" would even allow let my use of it since I am not > a paid or a signed up subscriber for its services. I don't know why > they would let me use their services for free unless they would > benefit somehow by advertising or by spamming or by identity theft or > by my creating new back roads for them to travel on or new back doors > for them to enter. Are there any known dangers of using "outside DNS's"?
This is a legacy of the birth and development of the Internet as a co-operative venture among the university computing community. In the begining it was all free and mostly open to all users who were expected to behave responsibly. There are no known dangers to using outside DNS's. Most, if not all, are open. They are like a telephone book hanging on a nail in a public place. That's all. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
