On 2012-05-17, at 5:58 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > 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.
Sorry, I could have made myself more clear. The distinction I was making was between 'serving the root zone on your cache' and 'pretending to be a root server', ie hijacking the IP address of a real root server and pretending to be it. dave _______________________________________________ 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
