MD> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:07:41 -0700 MD> From: Mike Damm MD> Who's up for creating a network of new gTLD servers? I'm sure I dunno. We'd be trusting those operating the gTLD network. ;-) MD> it wouldn't be too hard to reconstruct 90% of the com/net MD> zones from publicly available data MD> (http://www.deleteddomains.com/newlist.shtml?cid=11673-11084 It seems to think my Lynx browsing sessions are illegitimate, and returns a nasty message. MD> would be a good start). Constantly farming for missed zones, MD> and maybe even querying the "real" servers for missing data. MD> The updates would be a day or two behind the "real" zones, MD> but once you got a good number of eyeballs looking to your MD> servers instead of VeriSign's, you could probably convince MD> quite a few registrars to start sending you updates too. You're essentially having a resolver save cached domains, then return responses. MD> I'm sure this breaks many an RFC, and has an unfathomable MD> number of other problems, but I see it this way: we can *shrug* Anycasting AS112 works well. Eddy -- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita _________________________________________________________________ DO NOT send mail to the following addresses : blacklist@brics.com -or- alfra@intc.net -or- curbjmp@intc.net Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked.