There have been a number of questions that have been fielded wrt the EP.NET domain and traceroute failures within that domain. For your edification, here is a brief note on the EP.NET domain.
Personally I think that this is actually a value-subtracted service, as the EP.NET organisation does not run the named boxes, or the exchange points.
It would be much more helpfull the the interfaces that faces the NAP and another provider where following each providers naming conventions, and had a domain-name that would point the users to the organisation that actually operates the boxes.
You can still provide the service of running the nameservice.
I would tend to agree with this. I've had a number of customers ask me "what the heck is this ep.net?" Dave -- Dave Siegel Director of Engineering, Network 99, Inc. http://www.net99.net/ (602)249-1083 Network Ops http://www.rtd.com/~dsiegel/ (520)318-0696 Tucson Location