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Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner () nic-naa net>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:36:03 -0500
On 2/16/11 4:25 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect ...
ditto.i'm not aware of any actions by the .eg registry operator, though i'll ask, coincidental to the prefix withdrawal.
i suppose in the interests of completeness i should also ask about the (wicked recent) (مصر.) IDN ccTLD.
these are both wicked small zones, relative to the density of names registered (registries other than .eg) by egyptian residents, and the larger number of network using egyptians.
it is possible that as a preliminary step, the recursive resolver operators of each of the subsequently prefix withdrawing providers modified their cached data to provide policy-based resolution.
-e
Current thread:
- NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Joly MacFie (Feb 15)
- Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Marshall Eubanks (Feb 16)
- Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Martin Millnert (Feb 16)
- Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Franck Martin (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Doug Barton (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Fred Baker (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Eric Brunner-Williams (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Steven Bellovin (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Eric Brunner-Williams (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Steve Gibbard (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Fred Baker (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Randy Bush (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Franck Martin (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Joel Jaeggli (Feb 21)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Randy Bush (Feb 21)
- Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Martin Millnert (Feb 16)
- Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Marshall Eubanks (Feb 16)
- Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Richard Barnes (Feb 16)