I guess I don't understand your question then, My apologies.
At 11:36 PM 7/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
>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 :-)
>
>I think not. Joe Blow has the domain name blow.per; that's all that
>means.
>>
>>Youmake it sound like poeple have to choose bewteen com/net/org
>>OR per/biz/web. Thats not the case.
>
>I think not. I could have had another domain name with .org if I had wanted
>it, but did not choose to do so. If there had been .per or .web to select
>from
>the same would apply. Nothing in what I said leads to what you conclude.
>
>>
>>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.
>>
>Nobody said it was. Those were illustrations off the communication issue I
>was asking about.
>
>
>>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:
>
>Would you come off that shit, Richard? That is about
>the most excessively arrogant bunch of crap I've ever
>read in this babble factory. I'm perfectly capable of
>running Netscape; it was the origins of the numbers
>I was asking about.
>
>(Um, do you secretly work for Microsoft and write their
>grammar corrections?")
>
>>
>>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
>>
>Are those ones in which you have a financial interest? If so, the idea here
>was
>to answer my question, not to try to sell me on something, and other than
>slipping in one actual answer (the alternative root servers do indeed
>nclude data
>on .com, .net, .org as well as the alternative roots) all you've done here
>is give
>me a condescending lecture -- it's the techynerd syndrome again: someone
>who doesn't live and breath that shit asks a simple question and the Ultimate
>Engineer thinks that the questioner is the dumbest thing ever to come down
>the
>pike. So I'll say the same to you: keep it up as a know-it-all ass hole and
>see
>how well you do in business.
>
>Bill Lovell
>
>
>
>
>
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