Re: [??STUPID] Is linux "hardwired" to use the InterNIC root server?

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
2 Feb 1998 19:59:14 -0800

In article <linux.kernel.34D5814B.B93C23C7@ucsd.edu>,
Benjamin Redelings I <bredelin@UCSD.Edu> wrote:
>I've been thinking about this problem with having the whole internet
>use one server. I (while not being very informed) suspect that the
>American government is thinking of farming out top-level domain names to
>different companies mainly so that people can make money, not for the
>good of the internet or to allow people to avoid being controlled. It
>doesn't sound like a real solution.

1) This has nothing to do with the kernel. comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
2) the current crop of registrars are either (NSI) pirates or
(Postel) doing it as a hobby. If Jon Postel gets hit by a
bus, chaos will reign, and NSI has already converted the
majority of the namespace into a leasespace, at $50/year
with no contractual obligation on their part.
3) This has nothing to do with the kernel. comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
4) An Amtrak-like IANA is *exactly* what we hired the government to do.
5) This has nothing to do with the kernel. comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains

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