Counter: leave everything as it is. If they are willing to provide the hardware, bandwidth, and administrative costs to run root servers, they can block whoever they want. Just like if you run a web server you can block anyone from accessing it that you want. If you don't like it, start up your own root zone, there isn't anything stopping you. Not that it matters much in the big scheme of things; most modern resolvers will give preference to root servers they can actually reach. I for one am pretty happy with where E, G, and H are. Cogent and VeriSign's networks can hardly handle power cycles, let alone nuclear wars. --- Michael Damm, MIS Department, Irwin Research & Development V: 509.457.5080 x298 F: 509.577.0301 E: miked@irwinresearch.com -----Original Message----- From: Mark Borchers [mailto:mborchers@igillc.com] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:09 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Cc: stephen@sprunk.org; listuser@numbnuts.net; Mike Tancsa Subject: RE: .mil domain Suggestion: migrate the current MIL root servers to the DREN network. Thus they would be easily accessible from DoD's networks, while residining in front of any MIL filters or blackhole routers relative to the rest of the Internet.
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:
At 01:15 PM 30/05/2003 -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
For the same reason anyone else accepts their routes --
because they want to
be able to reach them. If they don't want to reach _you_, that's their choice.
As Sean Donelan pointed out, the fact that 2 of the root name servers are inside their network, there is more to the issue than you suggest.... I for example want people in Australia to be able to reliably lookup DNS info on my domains. The .mil people have decided to hamper this process.
I agree. The root servers should have no filtering in place to block any demographics (unless of course a given node is DoSing them).
The last time I tried to contact a .mil to report an open relay that was being abused, I was accused of being a spammer that had "hacked" their server. Since that time I reject .mil mail.
Justin