Dear Jonathan,
correction--it was not Richard Sexton, but Paul Garrin who has written
the DNS switcher application, located at http://namespace.org/software.
(actually the app was designed by Paul Garrin and coded by a programmer).
The application switches windows computers to resolve DNS through a
set of servers maintained by Name.Space, Inc. and affiliates.
For a list of some sites who use new TLDs serviced by Name.Space,
please see http://name.space.xs2.net/links
for the record.
regards,
Paul
>Karl,
>
>But I said "direct themselves to any DNS server," not "direct themselves to
>any root server." Aren't we agreeing that any intermediary can set up a
>DNS resolver, which in turn gets its info from any root server it chooses,
>and then consumers can point to whatever intermediaries they please. And
>Richard Sexton has written an app to make it as easy as a click for
>consumers to choose.
>
>So what's stopping market forces, as you say, from creating the nicely
>nested (but still not completely overlapping) competitive set of DNS
>services? I'd imagine only the market itself so far--which has been known
>to miss good opportunities in the space, to be sure. ...JZ
>
>At 12:31 AM 7/14/99 , Karl wrote:
>
>> > So far as I know, consumers can edit the fields in their network control
>> > settings for most OSs to direct themselves to any DNS server willing to
>> > resolve names for them.
>>
>>Actually it is a bit more complicated than that.
>>
>>Relatively few user machines really point directly at any root server
>>system.
