1996-06-27 - Re: Alternic.net (was domain zapping)

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: jfricker@vertexgroup.com (John F. Fricker)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-06-27 01:08:15 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:08:15 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:08:15 +0800
To: jfricker@vertexgroup.com (John F. Fricker)
Subject: Re: Alternic.net (was domain zapping)
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John F. Fricker writes:
> What constitutes "real DNS"?

The DNS that everyone on earth but the few hundred loonies use.

The fact that if you put a URL on the side of a bus using one of
"alternic"'s alleged domain names in it, no one on earth will be able
to read the page. I think that more or less says everything.

> It's that easy! The concept of centralized name resolutions is flawed and
> only exists out of habit. 

Yes, lets have chaos so no one can send anyone else mail because no
two machines share the same idea of the global namespace. It will
reduce the number of messages like yours I have to read.

Perry





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