[wplug] OT: Domain registrars

Brian A. Seklecki lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org
Thu Jul 27 00:03:30 EDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 15:34, Duncan Hutty wrote:
> Greg Simkins wrote:
> > Why would Linux make any difference?  A domain name is a domain name.  
> > There is one big happy DNS, isn't there?
> 
> Some people want to support the use and spread of F/OSS with their 
> dollars. That means supporting those that use them as well as those that 
> make them.

Rest assured that the 13 root name servers are running UNIX (IBM AIX for
all of the Versign ones A.*, J.* ?).  ISC BIND has always been, and will
always be, the flagship FOSS Project despite some of its earlier
security lapses.

~BAS



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