In message <[email protected]>, paul vixie writes: > On 5/15/2012 11:56 PM, David Conrad wrote: > > ... In the context of this blog posting, I personally think having > > folks (ISPs in particular) pre-fetch/mirror the root zone in their > > caches is the right answer to pretty much any useful definition of > > "fair and equitable" related to serving the root zone :-). > > now that i've been reminded that the SOA timers are shorter than the > update frequency and that no NOTIFY is required for up-to-date stealth > slave service; and now that the root is signed, making it unlikely that > stealth copies will be amended or that their namespaces will be > overloaded with other stealth slaves... i agree with drc here. let's > start encouraging widespread stealth slavery for the root zone.
The only problem with this is ICANN wanting to make the DNS a flat namespace by adding lots of vanity TLDs. As these grow the space required to serve "." increases and it will only be possible to do this with large servers. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [email protected] _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
