Re: [cobalt-users] Names4Ever

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Schreiber wrote:

> > One man's annoyance is another's theft of service <wry grin>.  If
> > someone's listing me as a nameserver, I want to know it.  Lame
> > delegations are not nice.
> 
> I'm curious now ... what can they steal? Care to explain? You can take it
> offlist if you want. :)

They steal my bandwidth, when they cause servers to hit me requesting
information I don't have.  In fact they steal the entire Internet's
bandwidth.  They steal space on the root servers, because that space is
there to help people reach sites, and by misusing it to misdirect people
who want to reach sites, that could be considered stealing it.

And they "steal" the name in that they take it out of the pool of names
available to people who might really want to use it.

And oh, yeah, they slander me, too, because people who really want to
find the site, and check, presume it's my ineptitude that keeps them
from finding what they want.

They're also very bad Internet neighbors; as I've said before, lame
delegation causes extra useless traffic on the Internet, and as such is
a bad thing.

Jeff
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