Check out "Namespace.com". They are (were?) doing this - with standard
DNS tools...
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Anonymous wrote:
:Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 16:32 -0700
:From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:Subject: micro DNS
:
:At today's sfbay cpunk meat meet a lot of ranting was centered
:on ICANN, TLDs and central naming schemes in general.
:
:If mass mnemonic use is disregarded for the moment, how about a personal DNS ?
:
:Each of us manages telephone book in some way. There is no need
:for central mapping of telephone numbers to persons.
:
:I mean *it works*.
:
:So the same can be done in software. Again, I don't care about the "world"
:knowing my httpd server IP number or my smtp IP number. I just care about
:the set of people that also know my telephone number.
:
:So,
:
:a small *nix, mac & windoze app that is the primary resolver for the local
:machine (ie. that one is consulted first), and that either has fixed hosts
:file or looks at the given set of name servers.
:
:This is not any different from existing stuff - it's just another tap
:into which alternate name trees can be fed to, at the discretion of the user,
:without disturbing the current hierarchy.
:
:So I can set a small name-like server and me and my friends can install the
:said app, and we can have fun having exclusive access to whatever
:domain names or TLDs we choose. No spamming. No domain fees.
:
:Actually, the fact that e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] is visible
:only from certain machines can sometimes be very useful.
:
:Again, the fact that the rest of the world does not know about it is
:irrelevant here. This is for the closed group use, like telephone numbers are.
:
:I would appreciate pointers to similar code if some exists.
:
:
Yours,
J.A. Terranson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and
elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
first place...
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