On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 09:24:46PM -0500, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
> >Yes, indeed. Been there...done that. There have been at least 5
> >serious attempts to create alternate root servers. They all have
> >failed. Why do you suppose that is?
>
> Oh, sure, in the past tense you refer to them as "serious" :-)
Sorry, I slipped up.
> But to answer your question, a) because of the personalities
> of the people spearheding them and b) the death-knell was Kashpureffs
> redirection of internic.
You don't think it had anything to do with factors like:
1) very few people are interested in being in a domain that nobody
can see;
2) a very large percentage of users of the internet would rather
things be stable
3) the serious Internet technical community overwhelmingly rejects
the idea
4) ...
> When I moved up to Bannockburn, the local ISP used eDNS; I'd
> never heard of them and they'd quietly switched. When Eug
> went nuts and did his thing they switched back. It's a trust
> thing.
I think it is a little more than that.
--
Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
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