148 & counting

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:29:55PM -0500, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
> I have the BIND source, its available to the public. 
> You want to know how hard it is? I'll show you. I will
> write it. Thats what I do for a living.
>
> I accept your challenge. See you in six months.
>
> > > > >  I don't think that's really practical.  I'm sorry, I just don't
> > > > >  trust them to write a resolver that's going to get included in libc
> > > > >  (or wherever), and for which the world is going to be dependant.
> > > >
> > > >  Well, I meant "at your customer recursive resolver servers", since the
> > > >  topic at hand was "what do IAP's do to support their retail customers",
> > > >  but...
> > >
> > > I don't trust them to write code that will be used in 
> > > mission-critical situations or places, regardless of where that is.

        whatever those are.  there are at least 146 DNS varients out
        there, the number may be higher.  about 50ish or so are BIND
        versions.

> > Hmmm...  again, absent TLD collisions, I don't see that writing a
> > recursive-only server that can coalesce the TLD namespace from multiple
> > roots ought to be *that* hard... but then I'm not Cricket, neither.

        in theory - its easy.  six months... might work
        debugged working code - a bit longer me thinks.

--bill