{"id":2266,"date":"2008-11-07T15:01:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T20:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2008-11-07T15:01:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T20:01:06","slug":"alternative-dns-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2266","title":{"rendered":"Alternative DNS roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the category of &#8220;why didn&#8217;t I think of that&#8221; I recently discovered that there are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alternative_DNS_root\">alternative DNS roots<\/a>. Domain name services are what resolve domain names like &#8220;theoreti.ca&#8221; into an actual IP Address. The available root names like .com, .ca and so on are limited and you can&#8217;t invent your own like &#8220;.rockwell&#8221; without paying a lot or convincing ICANN. That&#8217;s where alternative DNS root name servers come in. Obviously there are good reasons to not use alternative roots systems. As the Internet Architecture Board puts it in RFC 2826:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To remain a global network, the Internet requires the existence of a globally unique public name space.  The DNS name space is a hierarchical name space derived from a single, globally unique root. This is a technical constraint inherent in the design of the DNS. <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc2826\">RFC 2826: IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That said, Guy pointed me to a blog entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/echoreply.us\/tech\/2008\/07\/10\/why-i-use-my-own-dns-resolvers\/\">Why I use my own DNS resolvers<\/a> that explains why one might want to run your own DNS service (speed) and how you can then use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opennicproject.org\/\">OpenNIC<\/a> root servers to resolve alternative names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the category of &#8220;why didn&#8217;t I think of that&#8221; I recently discovered that there are alternative DNS roots. Domain name services are what resolve domain names like &#8220;theoreti.ca&#8221; into an actual IP Address. The available root names like .com, .ca and so on are limited and you can&#8217;t invent your own like &#8220;.rockwell&#8221; without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alternative DNS roots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}