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Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?)
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 01:14:08 -0400
On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:32:52 EDT, "Jay R. Ashworth" said:
Well, Steve; that reply is a *little* disingenuous: all of the alternative root zones and root server clusters that *I'm* aware of track the ICANN root, except in the rare instances where there are TLD collisions.
And *that* is just a tad disingenuous itself. If you have 1 alternate root that tracks ICANN's dozen-ish TLDs and the country-code TLDs, and then adds 2-3 dozen of its own, there's little room for amusement. If however, you have a Turkish root that tracks ICANN's dozen, and then adds 50 or 60 of its own, and a Chinese root that tracks ICANN's dozen, and then adds 75 or 100 of its own, it becomes interesting to watch a Turkish user try to reach one of those 75 Chinese TLDs, or the Chinese user try to reach one of the 50 Turkish additions, or either of those users trying to reach the *.special-sauce domain the first alternate root created. A collision isn't the only failure mode to worry about....
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- Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name? Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 06)
- Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name? Paul Vixie (Jul 04)
- Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name? Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jul 04)
- Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name? Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jul 04)
- Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name? Paul Vixie (Jul 04)
- Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name? william(at)elan.net (Jul 05)
- Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name? Peter Dambier (Jul 05)
- Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name? Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law (Jul 05)
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- Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name? Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 06)
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- The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?) Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 04)
- Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?) Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 04)
- Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?) Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 05)
- Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?) Steve Gibbard (Jul 05)
- Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?) Todd Underwood (Jul 05)
- Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?) Todd Vierling (Jul 05)
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- Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?) Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 05)
- Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse Michael . Dillon (Jul 06)
- Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?) Brad Knowles (Jul 05)
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- Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?) Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 05)
- Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?) Brad Knowles (Jul 05)
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