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The .SUCKS TLD saga continues
by Karyn Ulriksen 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Okay. You guys all asked for it. Robert Sexton over at ORSC will be adding it to his fold and dns will be served out of here. I will be setting up a "registration" page this weekend to request domains probably out of my www.valkaryn.net site. No fees planned. I would just like to be able to email anyone about changes. If it grows very large, I will set up a whois server for it and an availability check. Since there has been some commercial interest in .sucks domains, I will probably be changing the password access by next Monday and lock down the domain indexing a little further. In the meantime, you can introduce the following lines in your cache file if you don't use ORSC: sucks. 86400 IN NS dns-01-002.root-dns.com. sucks. 86400 IN NS dns-01-001.root-dns.com. If you would like a ".suck" or ".sucks" domain in the meantime, email me with your request and contact information. If you want the domain to point to your own nameservers, please be sure to provide the nameserver information. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Best regards, Karyn Ulriksen Network Operations Manager PublicHost, A VitalStream Company 1 Jenner, Suite 100 Irvine, California 92618 USA Phone: (949) 743-2000 email: kulriksen(a)publichost.com URL: http://www.publichost.com ===========================================

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Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
by Scott Gifford 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

"David Schwartz" <davids(a)webmaster.com> writes: > > Personally, I would hope that the rules would be the same as if you were > > trying to start a new business or magazine with the name in the domain > > name (I am making no judgement on how close UDRP is to that ideal). By > > that criteria, I am sure that if you tried to start a company or magazine > > named "Walmart Sucks" you would hear from their lawyers and they would be > > equally successful. > > Surely owning a domain is more like naming a book or magazine article > than naming a business. After all, businesses are not the only Internet > sites. I agree. In fact, during the heydey of "Beverly Hills 90210", I remember a monthly newsletter called "The I Hate Brenda Newsletter" or some such thing, which was a parody fanzine for Shannon Doherty, the actress who played Brenda. It was a quite funny piece of pop-culture parody, and I'm sure the magazine would have been shut down if copyright law allowed Fox Networks to. -----ScottG.

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Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ?
by Ulf Zimmermann 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

A while back when I was at SGI, I wrote my own scripts, using expect and tftp to backup configurations of Cisco routers. Configs then were put into rcs. Now before I am resurecting those scripts again for my current job, what are people using to backup equipment, things such as Cisco routers (26xx, 36xx, 72xx, 75xx, MSFC, RSM) and Cisco Catalyst switches (2924XL, 3548XL, 4000, 5000, 6500) ? What I am trying to archive is at least a daily backup, with again some version control to be able what changed between days. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073

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external issues in dns scalability (1995) (was Re: Namespaces)
by Paul Vixie 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

avg(a)kotovnik.com (Vadim Antonov) writes: > Just stop issuing alhpanumeric domain names and use numerals only. In 1995, Brian Kahin invited a bunch of folks to come to DC and talk about DNS ("a policy wonk's dream"). Not understanding that the whole thing was a sham, I wrote a paper and presented it. The audience (hi Vint!) reacted in stunned silence, and probably had a good laugh about it later at the bar. I found the postscript files and converted them to PDF and put them online: http://www.vix.com/~vixie/bad-dns-paper.pdf http://www.vix.com/~vixie/bad-dns-slides.pdf All I can really say is: "I told y'all so." Vadim, thanks for reminding me that there was a time when these problems were still soluble.

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Re: new.net
by richb＠pioneer.ci.net 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

Adrian Chadd wrote: > Whats international trademark+patent arrangements say about this? > See, .com is not all US-registered, and so if you were going to do > something like this, where do non-US people fit in here? I think that's precisely the issue at hand. How does one administer a global flat name-space, given the lack of any global entity with the authority to do so? Right now, lawyers get paid big bucks by international firms to protect a trademark or company name in a multitude of jurisdictions. -rich

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Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
by Steven M. Bellovin 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010308150412.22419A-100000(a)pc.netxsys.com>, Krzyszto f Adamski writes: > >I just got a customer that has "registered" 4 domains with new.net, is >there a place I can direct them to, so they can read about this "scam"? > RFC 2826 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb

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Re: Sprint Problem
by Sean Donelan 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

On Thu, 08 March 2001, "Ukyo Kuonji" wrote: > Does anyone know the cause and extent of the Sprint problem between Fort > Worth and Houston last night? What did Sprint's customer service say? The last outage Sprint reported to the FCC was on February 8, affecting 217,000 customers.

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RE: Sprint Problem
by Ukyo Kuonji 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

I'm not a customer of sprint, but I have an account on an ISP that is majorly downstream of Sprint. They were told that there was network problems between Houston and Ft Worth between 1700 and 0230. I know that is was a major problem as I notices that not only did it isolate this particular ISP, but it did several other Texas customers of Sprint. From my SBC account I could get anywhere connected to C&W and UUNET, but Sprint was like a black hole. Or at least close enough to seriously bend the light... Just wondering if anyone here had heard anything about it. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog(a)merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 1:49 PM To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: Sprint Problem On Thu, 08 March 2001, "Ukyo Kuonji" wrote: >Does anyone know the cause and extent of the Sprint problem between > Fort >Worth and Houston last night? What did Sprint's customer service say? The last outage Sprint reported to the FCC was on February 8, affecting 217,000 customers. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
by Martin Hannigan 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

At 09:36 AM 3/8/2001 -0800, Karyn Ulriksen wrote: >:: Pete Bowden wrote: >:: >:: > Maybe we can register .com.sucks, and then modify our >:: resolver search paths >:: > to search ".sucks" ... hmmm... >:: > >I'm there!! > >http://nsadmin.root-dns.com >Username: nanog(a)merit.edu >Password: n@nog > >Now be nice... if you guys get serious, I'll lock it down and make it for >real. In the meantime, don't change the password, so everyone can play and >add .sucks. Maybe I should write a plugin... > >I'll keep it up for a while unless it gets too wierd. > >Yes, this is a live DNS server. [ /me shakes head ] Would you like some fries with that? Regards, -- Martin Hannigan hannigan(a)fugawi.net Fugawi Networks Engineering Boston, MA http://www.fugawi.net Ph: 617.742.2693 Fax: 617.742.2300

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RE: more .sucks TLD fun
by Roeland Meyer 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

I thought someone already had SUCKS.?!?! > -----Original Message----- > From: Karyn Ulriksen [mailto:kulriksen@publichost.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 11:37 AM > To: 'nanog(a)merit.edu' > Subject: more .sucks TLD fun > > > > Considering that the service for .sucks has been reviewed by > over 150 unique > IPs in the last hour, I have added the very first TLD subdomain.... > "really.sucks". Access to this subdomain is via the same > interface. Let me > know if you want a .sucks domain with a separate admin user. > > have fun! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Best regards, > > Karyn Ulriksen > Network Operations Manager > PublicHost, A VitalStream Company > 1 Jenner, Suite 100 > Irvine, California 92618 USA > Phone: (949) 743-2000 > email: kulriksen(a)publichost.com > URL: http://www.publichost.com > =========================================== > > >

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