begin quoting Michael O'Keefe as of Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:24:20PM -0800: > >What happens when Canada starts giving away .cool domains? When Iran > >starts giving away domains in .jihad? Switzerland and .chocolate? > >Columbia and .cocaine and .coffee? > > They can't can they ?
Why can't they? > You still need to contact the root-servers to find out "who's > responsible for .cool" and if the root-servers refuse to tell you, > you'll never know So you set up your own root servers. They're just machines. > I exercised some software from my wife's Windows machine over the > weekend that added some new TLD's, but I guess the driver just > intercepts those DNS requests and redirects them if anyone was stupid > enough to want to look them up. That's a local way to do it. > So to support these new TLD's, you need a list of root-servers to > contact to find out who has the domain... And why would this be difficult? -Stewart "For the average home user, it would even be transparent!" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
