From: Kevin Loch [mailto:kloch@opnsys.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:21 AM

So the plug-in does *not* change which dns server you query. if a query fails against your normal name server it just appends .newdotnet.net or, if that fails, makes stuff up.

Of course if your regular resolver server was a UDNS server or Earthlink or an ISP that adopted the new.net TLD's you would have found an A record for pie.shop with or without the plug-in.

This also means that if your reguler resolver server had your own private .shop zone (perhaps empty), that would take precedence for regular and plug-in queries for that TLD.

This is cute. It also means that, if your zone server carried the ORSC root-zone, the SHOP TLD, in the ORSC root-zone, would take precedence. Simon, maybe you don't have to talk to them at all <evil grin>. The best defense is for ISPs to start carrying the ORSC zone file.