On May 17, 2012, at 8:36 PM, paul vixie wrote: > let me clarify my own intention. if an rdns operator whose software is > also capable of slaving a zone wants to slave the root zone in order to > avoid going upstream to the roots to learn where 'com' is and in order > to be able to generate authoritative nxdomain responses without a round > trip, that's both an individual good and a greater good. > > in no case would i advise any form of policy based routing or route > hijacking or anything else that would cause any dns initiator to end up > talking to this hybrid rdns+rootslave when they thought they were > talking to, or were in fact trying to talk to, a root name server. > > it's just a way to hotwire the cache, not to change 'who is a root > server operator'.
This works for me. Thank you for clarifying. --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
