On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:57:46 CST, James Hess said: > Just because someone registered EXAMPLE.COM with one particular > internet registry, doesn't mean they own the lookup result for every > DNS server in the world. All they have paid for is the creation > and maintenance of entries in one particular shared database, and > they only have control for the (large) subset of DNS servers that > utilize that particular database. > > People can start new DNS roots, old DNS roots can be superceded, > there can even be multiple conflicting private roots.
Those who didn't read RFC2826 are condemned to repeat it. Of course, it's *your* help desk that gets to answer the phone and explain to your users why www.giraffes-r-us.com went to a nice page of cute pictures of giraffes when they were at Starbucks, but when they got home to show their kids, it was giraffe pr0n.
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