Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 00:41:57 -0400 (EDT) From: C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com> To: Steven Ames <steve@news.cioe.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www.edns.com Message-ID: <199704070441.AAA22098@goffette.research.megasoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704030310.WAA22497@news.cioe.com> References: <199704030310.WAA22497@news.cioe.com>
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>>>>> "Steve" == Steven Ames <steve@news.cioe.com> writes: Steve> I only ask this question here because I wondered if FreeBSD Steve> intends to add their root servers to the standard cache file Steve> distributed with FreeBSD. I would certainly hope not. Steve> Anyone got the pros/cons on this? Well, edns isn't the only outfit out there screwing around with adding more TLDs. There's AlterNIC, and some others that I can't remember right now. To complicate matters, the TLDs that these guys are dishing out aren't necessarily unique once you mesh all of the namespaces. This is bad, bad, bad, bad news. A lot of these people are running around crying "monopoly" and squealing about their "right" to try a business venture, blah blah blah. I listened to Paul Garrin whine about this on HotWired's HotSeat a while back (in January?) I imagine how he could have presented a LESS convincing argument on why anyone should pay him (or any of these other silly outfits) any attention. I'm actually not terribly pleased that IAHC is going to add new TLDs. The system is fine as it is, but the problem is that it isn't being used as it was designed, and now, instead of doing something that makes sense, people are out there registering dozens of domain names, creating a horrible waste of the namespace, etc. Adding more TLDs isn't going to fix this: it just make the namespace wider... It's only a matter of time before we're facing the same problem again... Then what, add more TLDs? No, I think that the namespace should be given out a little less freely, at least in the "big" three-letter TLDs... Not only is having lots of TLDs gross and difficult to make sense of, but it does create more load on the root nameservers. (Not in the number of requests, of course, this will increase as long as the number of DNS lookups increases, but it will increase the size of the tables of domains and their associated root nameservers that need to be maintained.) I'd be perfectly happy to see the TLDs all go away, except for the two-letter country code domains, and ".int"... -- Matt Curtin Chief Scientist Megasoft, Inc. cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com http://www.research.megasoft.com/people/cmcurtin/ I speak only for myself Death to small keys. Crack DES NOW! http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm
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