This argument of protocol purity is absolutist Canutism (yes, I did make that up - think King Canute). Innovation comes from using building blocks in ways that were never intended.

The Domain name system was never intended as a direct navigation mechanism (you type a name and expect a result without knowing there is a site you're looking for there) but there is a vibrant, useful and valuable industry based around the realisation that people out there use domain names in ways that were never intended.

Chill out. I know it's not really in fashion at the moment, but let the market rule. If what Bigpond is doing is "bad" for users, they'll vote with their feet. Personally, I don't really see the harm - but then, nor am I a conservative purist who wants things to stay the way the "founding fathers" intended them to be.

Regards,

Larry Bloch 

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-----Original Message-----
From: dns-bounces+larry.bloch=netregistry.com.au§dotau.org [mailto:dns-bounces+larry.bloch=netregistry.com.au§dotau.org] On Behalf Of Anand Kumria
Sent: Friday, 20 November 2009 1:33 PM
To: .au DNS Discussion List
Subject: Re: [DNS] Telstra DNS redirection

Hi Brett,

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Brett Fenton
<brett.fenton&#167;netregistry.com.au> wrote:
>
> Rather than give me a list of hypothetical potential issues, this type of
> service has been launched in other markets, Telstra unsuprisingly aren't the
> first. Are there any real world incidents that are documented that show this
> as being a problem.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/317356/telstra_internet_outage_points_dns_failure

How about when they deployed it?

If they screwed up deployment so badly, why would upgrades be any different?

It is fairly late / early morning where I am (depending on your point
of view), but I'll respond to the

> I googled for 30 minutes and couldn't come up with anything.

I googled for 3 minutes but I was not able to determine whom the
technology provider in this case is -- if you were, then I am sure I
can follow the deployed locations to find other instances of problems
occurring in the real world.

Anand
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