On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Peter Mott wrote:
Anybody got anything to say about this?
Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2day.com -/-
***************************************************************** This message is being sent to 70 ISP's in New Zealand It's a request for your company to change it's Root Server setup. *****************************************************************
Let's assume this is a good idea and all the ISPs asked to make the change do so. Addresses for web sites in the .z domain start to circulate around NZ and find their way to corporates, government departments and agencies and other folk who run their own nameservers etc. I'd have to say I'd be surprised if they could resolve the .z names. So they pick up the phone and ring their ISP saying "the Internet is broken yet again, please fix it". ISP gets into help mode explaining to all sorts on non technical people how to patch their DNS servers. ISP also has to deal with all sorts of calls which are blamed on this change even though they're not - you know the sort - ever since you made us changed the DNS, my {mouse, photocopier, printer, sex life} stopped working. So I'd have to wonder if the problem set is slightly larger than 70 ISPs. Do you really need the .z domain so much that you're prepared to dick around with the "glue that binds" the net together? Isn't this mail from Wapterix simple spam that should be discarded? --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog