* From: Luke Besson * Date: Thu Oct 19 08:54:47 2006 I work for a big French ISP and I manage the DNS architecture (based on Linux+Bind); Golog proposed to our society the DNS redirect service (redirect all the not existant domains according to marketing criteria). Even if our marketing team would like to join this solution, our technical team opposes hardly to such a not-standard implementation of the DNS. Can you suggest me any objective reason in order to invalidate this proposal?
This is a network autonomy issue. What occurs inside the provider edge related to routing and applications is the responsibility of the provider and they have the right to modify answers or routes in their networks, even if they are not "theirs". There is some "holy grail" you should consider, like making sure that etrade.com is etrade.com, the legitimate IP/trademark holder. The questions to ask yourself as an organization are something like this: a) is there enough revenue here to consider? b) is someone else going to capture revenue between my customer and myself if I don't? c) will this break my network or the networks of others? If you can answer the first two yes, the third is worth trying to make "no". -M< -- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574 Member of Technical Staff Network Operations hannigan@renesys.com