Why 42. Most of the early would be hackers and geeks and a prime number would seem way better.
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy? dur.
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#13Why 42. Most of the early would be hackers and geeks and a prime number would seem way better.
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide comes to mind. 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. I guess many hackers will get the reference.
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#14Why 42. Most of the early would be hackers and geeks and a prime number would seem way better.
42 is probably the most famous "geek-number", from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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#15split-DNS is not the answer.
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#16The really interesting thing here is the alternate DNS root that hosts the gimmick TLD. But it's not the first (remember AlterNIC?).
Getting involved with this will teach you about DNS, and that's probably the best reason to do it --- but there are risks. (Frex, you're implicitly trusting whoever's running it to direct you back to the mainstream root servers for ".com", and not to an alternate ".com" on which selected sites are directed through password-harvesting proxies.)
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#18Why 42. Most of the early would be hackers and geeks and a prime number would seem way better.
Agreed, and as above, 42 is in the valid range for the 'D' part of an A.B.C.D ipv4 address. If the number were larger than 255, there would be no issue.
How about 420? ... Okay, okay. 421 is prime.
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#19so who owns 42.42.42.42 ? (which is the obvious candidate for the root DNS server)
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#20The really interesting thing here is the alternate DNS root that hosts the gimmick TLD. But it's not the first (remember AlterNIC?). Getting involved with this will teach you about DNS, and that's probably the best reason to do it --- but there are risks. (Frex, you're implicitly trusting whoever's running it to direct you back to the mainstream root servers for ".com", and not to an alternate ".com" on which selecte…
They do not seem to be hosting an alternate root themselves. They rely on http://wiki.global-anycast.net/index.php/Main_Page