There are very strong technical reasons why alternative roots are a very bad idea. You have not provided any information to the contrary.
Fair call, Mark. I have my 2c on the side to throw in also: I believe its the clients choice wether they resolve their DNS through the usual channels (ie via the ISP's DNS server), or direct to an alternative root DNS server. And so it is, I am not aware of any ISP blocking lookups via servers outside their LAN. However, what gets me is all these transparent web-caches that due to their nature fail to proxy web-requests to alternative TLD sites. I'm not asking that ISPs change their primary DNS servers to do lookups on alternate servers. I just ask that that should I choose to do so then their web-cache engines proxy the pages correctly. For instance, if I dial into Tasman Solutions (local Nelson ISP) and set my DNS resolver to an alternative server, I can connect to the web-page "www.pacroot" (as they have no transparent cache). But if I dial into Paradise.NET and set my DNS resolver to an alternate server, I cannot access the web-page "www.pacroot" as the transparent web-cache at Paradise steps in and tells me "The system encountered an Unresolvable Host Name while attempting to retrieve http://www.pacroot/.". :( I've asked Paradise.NET to key alternate root DNS server IP's into their Cache-Flows, and they've told me to go jump. Fair enough, its their call. It's just a shame that I have to vote with my feet. I guess what I am getting to - as an end user - is that its the ISP's choice if they want to resolve non-ICANN TLDs, but even if they don't, should they really be "blocking" them via their web-caches? Thanks for listening :) Pete. Pete Mundy - Technician Advanced Communications +64-3-546-9169 / +64-25-480-840 E-Mail: Pete(a)AdvComm.Co.NZ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog