At 12:29 AM 7/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>Which certainly has its appealing aspects. But 'splain something: I'm
>>sitting here on, say, a xxx.com or a xxx.net ISP, and I want to search a
>>.per or a .biz, or more exactly I want to search on whatever, some of
>>which may happen to be on .per or .biz. Alternatively, I want all the
people
>>on .per and .biz to find my pages, of which (as happens to be the case)
>>I have one on .com and another on .net. How do we communicate?
>
>First off, there's no such thing as "the people on .per" in the
>sense that there is the poeple on Compuserve or the poeple
>on prodigy, so get that idea out of your head :-)
>
>Youmake it sound like poeple have to choose bewteen com/net/org
>OR per/biz/web. Thats not the case.
>
>The alterntative root servers people are talking about here
>know about those top level domains, plus they know about
>all the others out there, as well. So it's not an either/or
>thing.
>
>>>I'm a Netscape type, and avoid Microsoft as much as I can in the face of
>>>its monopoly (seekers after alternative roots, etc., should understand the
>>>feeling).
>
>I don't think you can boot Netscape from a BIOS chip quite
>yet, so until that happy day you're probably using windows,
>unix or a mac. Now you probably aren't using a mac because
>you havn't gone out of your way to tell us how great they
>are and you probably aren't using unix otherwise you probably
>wouldn't be asking this question.
>
>So you're probably using Windows.
>
>So you want to look at:
>
>My Computer --> Control Panel --> Network
>
>Single click on TCP/IP
>
>Click on Properties
>
>Click on DNS configuration
>
>remove all the numbers that are there
>
>then add any two or three of the following:
>
>199.166.24.1
>205.189.73.102
>204.80.125.130
>204.80.125.145
>207.126.103.16
>205.210.42.21
>198.96.119.44
>204.57.55.100
>205.210.42.22
And ...
205.189.73.10
216.196.51.4
216.196.51.5
and many, many more that Richard and I don't directly control. There are
MANY more out there than you may believe.
Gene...
>
>then click ok.
>
>Now you can see http//lighting.faq
>
>and all your old com net and org junk will still work, too.
>
>
>--
>Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone
>http://killifish.vrx.net http://www.mbz.org http://lists.aquaria.net
>Bannockburn, Ontario, Canada, 70 & 72 280SE, 83 300SD +1 (613) 473-1719
>
>
++++++++++
Gene Marsh
president, anycastNET Incorporated
330-699-8106
