c'mon Neil. Chill out. Rodney's posts have been 100% more content filled than your own. No need to fill mailboxes around the world with this crap. Especially not on a Friday. At 03:39 PM 9/5/2003 +0100, Neil J. McRae wrote:

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For those of you who *will* have to troubleshoot inconsistent DNS answers between the two systems, you've now had a "head's up". Especially those who hard code the root data (see the Nanog archives for discussions regarding hard coded root hints files). ;-)

Rodney, I couldn't agree with you more, but the post looked like a pretty poor attempt to stick one at Verisign. Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick.

Its great that the namespace is evolving, but a pity to see it being used as point scoring exercise with the competition. If random ISP Y came on and said that packets would arrive faster through their new BOZOroute engine that controls BGP4 with the force and unlike Cisco based ISP's blah blah.

Regards, Neil. [p.s. can someone tell me whats the difference between a real ISP and [I suppose] an unreal ISP?]