On May 17, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Dave Knight wrote: > > On 2012-05-17, at 2:28 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > >> Just to put a stake in the ground, is this the problem statement people >> agree with: >> >> Some ISPs want to act like root servers, so the root server operators should >> help those ISPs do so. > > There's an important distinction to be made between 'act like a root server' > and 'slave the root zone'. Their appropriate course of action in the first > case ought to be to contact a root server operator to discuss hosting an > anycast instance. It's the second case we're discussing here.
>From looking at the thread, I'm not convinced that you are correct. The common >definition of being a slave zone is that you are just as authoritative as the >primary. To me, that means "act like a root server". Using "slave" as a verb >seems to have the meaning "transfer the zone in order to act like a slave", >but some people have talked about other ways of updating other than zone >transfers. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ 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
