Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2019-04-12 16:11, Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 07:54:57 -0400
> Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> > mick crane wrote:
> > > I have wondered what they do to stop people broadcasting their own top level
> > > domain.
> >
> > Nothing. They don't have to.
> >
> > If you want a top level domain and you control your own
> > nameservers, you've got it.
> >
> > But nobody else is likely to query your nameservers about it, so
> > it won't be used by anyone else.
> >
> > This can actually be useful: you can define .crane for use
> > within your house, and now you have names that nobody else will
> > see.
>
> And there are actually alternative DNS roots:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root

I have wondered about this because think when all started it was the 
intention of a cooperative of computers advertising where they were and 
where everybody else was so as to be  difficult to disrupt the 
connections whereas now it seems different to that.
Obviously there has to be some agreement about who represents what.




> Celejar

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