RE: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

Then, how do you intelligently talk about the other entities I bring up?

BTW, I didn't invent some of this. The semantic need exists and because of
resistance to further definition, folks are making their own semantics to
fill the vacume. You really ought to look at what MSFT uses for DDNS
semantics, it is a nightmare. The reason that they came up with their own,
is because there were no pre-existing semantics that would cover the
concepts. MHSC, ORSC, and I suspect uDNS, had to do the same thing. One
resultant is, that we have conflicting semantics.

ref: what I said about routing around the problem.

Denial is not a river in Egypt and won't make the problem go away.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Havard.Eidnes () runit sintef no
> [mailto:Havard.Eidnes () runit sintef no]
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 2:29 PM
> To: rmeyer () mhsc com
> Cc: bmanning () vacation karoshi com; joshua () roughtrade net;
> nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
>
>
>
> > <Root server> ::= Any DNS server that has final authority for a
> > <domain tier/level>;
>
> That's what's commonly referred to as an "authoritative name
> server" for the zone in question.
>
> I'll side with Bill M: a "root DNS name server" serves the root
> zone, aka. ".".
>
> Regards,
>
> - Håvard