A lot of people try the alternative root servers since their existance. And I have yet to see one that really worked to convince majority of internet to find it authoritative... alt-servers seems to be emotional response to the problem. No matter how hard you try, I doubt even 20% of all ISP's on the internet will use it :( -hc -- Haesu C. TowardEX Technologies, Inc. Consulting, colocation, web hosting, network design and implementation http://www.towardex.com | haesu@towardex.com Cell: (978)394-2867 | Office: (978)263-3399 Ext. 174 Fax: (978)263-0033 | POC: HAESU-ARIN On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:37:03PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
This sort of not-for-profit is exactly what I proposed when the VeriSign discussion started. A non-technical response to a non-technical problem. Since my inital email, I've recruited a few other NANOG folks and put up a website: www.alt-servers.org.
what a BAD idea. worse than anything else on the table or in existence today. -- Paul Vixie