Whatever happened to alternative root servers?
Whatever happened to alternative root servers?
Posted Oct 9, 2003 0:26 UTC (Thu) by proski (guest, #104)In reply to: Whatever happened to alternative root servers? by log2
Parent article: VeriSign fends off critics at ICANN confab (News.com)
It's possible if you have the list of the .com and .net domains. I don't think VeriSign will share it with you for free and keep it updated. It should be possible to set up a caching proxy that would request VeriSign but exclude the wildcard entry, based on the returned IP address or on the fact that VeriSign answers itself rather than redirects the request. VeriSign can try to foil this proxy by using multiple IP addresses for the SiteFinder and by delegating wildcard replies to another DNS server. In short, it would be a mess, maybe a full-blown DNS war.
Disclaimer: I'm not a DNS specialist.