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[ga] Re: New ORG DNS (Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] some news stories from Shanghai)
Marc and all,
Marc Schneiders wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, at 10:08 [=GMT-0500], KathrynKL@aol.com wrote:
>
> > HEADLINE: UltraDNS To Provide DNS Infrastructure for .ORG; UltraDNS Replaces
> > Verisign's DNS With Next Generation Non-BIND DNS Infrastructure
>
> > "While this is very big news for UltraDNS, it is also an important
> > development for the public Internet. By having .ORG domain names resolve
> > through a non-BIND based DNS infrastructure such as UltraDNS', the Internet
> > is immeasurably safer and more reliable," said Ben Petro, president and CEO
> > of UltraDNS. "ICANN's decision to award the .ORG registry operation to ISOC
> > is a vote of confidence in ISOC's selected service providers, such as
> > UltraDNS, and their capabilities."
> >
> > UltraDNS' DNS infrastructure guarantees mission-critical, 100 percent
> > directory services reliability and high performance - unlike legacy BIND
> > systems. Utilizing proprietary Directory Services Platform, UltraDNS has
> > built the first global, fail-safe server network designed to meet demands for
> > 100 percent, SLA-guaranteed reliability, scalability, security, and high
> > performance data management in today's Internet and telecom environment -
> > supporting millions of users managing billions of records.
>
> > proprietary
>
> Yes, well, two questions:
>
> 1. Was Verisign not going to do DNS for free for the year 2003 for ORG?
Yes I believe they were...
>
>
> 2. UltraDNS claims a lot. Much better and safer than Bind. How can we
> check this? The software is closed source.
Purchase the software.
>
>
> 3. Do the present ORG nameservers run Bind?
I don't think so... VRSN does not run standard Bind as I understood
them some months ago now...
> I have it in my ears they do
> not, but run another proprietary nameserver package. And they think they
> run something special themselves, if you ask them about it: VGRS1. So
> UltraDNS is barking up the wrong tree. Or did I miss something?
a
Yeah, you missed allot Marc. And you comments here, taken
as a whole, make that pretty clear. So yes UltraDns has valid
point(s)...
>
>
>
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Regards,
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