At 12:37 PM 9/1/2006, Joe Abley wrote:
On 1-Sep-2006, at 02:11, Martin Hannigan wrote:
You seem to be suggesting that ISPs run stealth slaves for these kinds of zones. This may have been a useful pointer for ISPs in days gone by, but I think today it's impractical advice.
How so? Anyone can get a zone and turn up [a-m] on-net and outperform (response and uptime) many of the existing instances of root servers.
The root servers are easy; the zone is tiny and the update frequency is miniscule.
We were talking about TLD servers.
I can't get a TLD zone? But back to the root servers. Are you agreering with me that if I announce F and I root's netblocks inside of my own network that everyone would be ok with that? C'mon Joe, straight answer on that one. :) -M< -- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574 Member of Technical Staff Network Operations hannigan@renesys.com