[conspire] New TLD

[Ruben Safir]

On 09/26/2015 07:56 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):
> 
>> On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 01:02 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
>>> (aka 'What to do with your spare Class C network':)
>>>
>>> $ traceroute -m 100 bad.horse
>>
>> I don't think a .horse registration is absolutely required for this.
> 
> I honestly do not understand what you're talking about.  The _entire_
> joke depends centrally on the existence of the new-ish .horse TLD.  It's
> possible that you're not familiar with Whedon's 'Dr. Horrible's
> Sing-Along Blog' -- in which case, you didn't get the joke.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b77dLyOKxQk
> 


Oh - it wasn't original poetry.... bummer.

I think the point about the TLD and root names are not valid though.  Of
course, I am not an expert.


[ruben at stat13 ~]$ dig is.watching.so.beware

; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P2 <<>> is.watching.so.beware
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 39933
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;is.watching.so.beware.         IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       10800   IN      SOA     a.root-servers.net.
nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2015092601 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 18 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.0.5#53(10.0.0.5)
;; WHEN: Sat Sep 26 21:53:20 2015
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 125

[ruben at stat13 ~]$  dig -x 162.252.205.148

; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P2 <<>> -x 162.252.205.148
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5922
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;148.205.252.162.in-addr.arpa.  IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
148.205.252.162.in-addr.arpa. 7200 IN   PTR     is.watching.so.beware.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
205.252.162.in-addr.arpa. 7200  IN      NS      a.sn1.us.
205.252.162.in-addr.arpa. 7200  IN      NS      b.sn1.us.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.sn1.us.               7200    IN      A       69.9.32.139
b.sn1.us.               7200    IN      A       209.240.64.148

;; Query time: 220 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.0.5#53(10.0.0.5)
;; WHEN: Sat Sep 26 21:53:29 2015
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 162