Stewart Stremler wrote: > 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?
It is not. I had set up a server that offered .jaq domains. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
