Let me try to get away from what is or is not "big" and ask two questions. (These are legit questions to me. I have studied the DNS a whole bunch, but I do not operate any non-trivial part of the DNS and so that viewpoint is valuable to me.)
(1) Setting aside history and how things have been done and why (which I am happy to stipulate is rational)... At this point, are there tangible benefits for getting information about the TLD nameservers to resolvers as needed via a network service? (2) Are there fundamental problems that would arise in recursive resolvers if the information about TLD nameservers was no longer available via a network service, but instead had to come from a file that was snarfed periodically? Thanks! allman -- https://www.icir.org/mallman/ @mallman_icsi _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations