After _trying_ to ignore this subject all week, and failing miserably, I now feel that it's time for my $0.02 (USD.) Stoned koala bears drooled eucalyptus spit in awe as Chris Davis exclaimed:
I did mean to say in my last posting, everything *non-resolvable* outside the ICANN TLD's is resolved to 64.208.49.135
This can actually be a "Good Thing," for unless 64.208.49.135 is a Cray, it's going to be swamped if this thing gets very widely deployed.
Existing new.net TLD domains resolve to whatever their IPs are.
The plug-in, however, sends ANY query outside the ICANN TLDs to 64.208.49.135. This usurps any and every other imaginable future TLD, ie www.bull.shit They're not advertising a 'shit' domain (um, literally), and yet requests for 'shit' go to their NS.
This can almost be considered to be criminal and malicious. I just hope and pray that it doesn't go very far.
Their scheme, if successful, takes over service for EVERY TLD domain not already in operation by ICANN.
Scary, eh? Yet, people are advocating this farce.
Who's the monopoly?
Gee..I dunno? Seriously folks, anybody who is supporting this system must be on some _very_strong recreational pharmaceuticals. As are those who are claiming that it's a political issue and not a technical one. As has been pointed out _several_ times on this list, the RFC's state ONE ROOT. This is The Way God Intended DNS To Be. This isn't a matter of whether ICANN is right or not in their decisions concering new TLDs. Personally, I do not care who runs the root, as long as it works. It could be our fine friends at goatse.cx for all I care. What I *do* care about, however, is that www.whatever.com resolves to the same IP address (or group of IP addresses) whether I am dialed into Earthlink, C&W, AOL, or whatever. Is it too much to ask that we have a consistent view of the DNS namespace? I don't think it is, and I don't think that New.Net's system is going to provide it. I hope that whoever dreamt up the whole New.Net concept gets condemned to the same level of Hell as the spammers and kiddie pr0n peddlers. I am glad that the advocates of this system have revealed themselves on this list, for I wish to laugh loudly and obnoxiously at you when New.Net fails, and it *will* fail. Thankfully, the 2 small systems that I help to admin in my spare time are refusing to support this thing, and so far, I have gotten no official word from my $main_employer as to whether or not they support it or not, but I suspect the answer to be "no". I most certainly hope so, for the sake of humanity and the Internet. Jeff -- "...and the burnt fool's bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the fire." -Joe Zeff in the SDM.