13 Nov
1998
13 Nov
'98
7:17 p.m.
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu> Date: Saturday, November 14, 1998 1:12 AM Subject: Re: Journal of Internet Disasters [...]
other servers are more conservative, and had switched to manual daily FTP of the COM zone longer ago than F has done. (with manual daily FTP you get the advantages of gzip, and of the pretense of "zone master" status while you manually retry after timeouts. AXFR needs those properties.)
wouldn't a new transfer type (AZFR/IZFR) be useful here, being basically AXFR/IXFR but piped through gzip on each end? These would need to be negotiated (based onversion number) of course, but would help a lot with large zones like COM...