RE: URGENT! Root Servers not updated

[Rodney Joffe <rjoffe () genuity net>]

Slow downn a little...

Apparently Mark Kosters is on vacation... so they're trying to track him
down to get this cleared up (this info gleaned as a result of trying to
deal with Genieweb claiming .com authority :-)


Rodney Joffe
Chief Technology Officer
Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company
http://www.genuity.net



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Caulfield [SMTP:jesse () netthink com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 1997 10:17 AM
> To:   Gordon Cook
> Cc:   nanog () merit edu
> Subject:      Re: URGENT! Root Servers not updated
>
> As I understand it (and I really don't so you should stop reading
> now...)
> the purpose of locking down the zone files (or whatever) is not
> necessarily a power grab by NSI, but rather a move to protect the
> people
> and information who appear in that database (or whatever) from
> otherwise
> nefarious miscreants. Folks who want the file will simply have to
> register
> for it.
>
> I believe information generally wants to be free, but there may be a
> good
> business, technical and socially acceptable case for asking users of
> the
> database to identify themselves.
>
> Also, it's possible NSI got ahead of themselves and locked stuff up
> before handing out the keys. What with the move and power grid
> failures in
> Herndon, anything's possible.
>
> --
> JMC
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Gordon Cook wrote:
> > has the basic problem that paul vixie complained about been solved?
> >
> > I called a knowledgable source last night.  That person was aware of
> the
> > change and said that the proper IANA people had been informed in
> advance
> > and had (he thought) not disagreed. the change he believed was not
> for any
> > of the reasons that paul feared.
>
>
> On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> > The message below was one of several that came to me today.
> Apparently,
> > when NSI changed the FTP access controls recently for the COM, ORG,
> EDU,  
> > and NET zones, they also disallowed zone transfers from the "A" name
> > server to most of the other name servers.