At 10:34 23/10/02, Brad Knowles wrote:
I thank you for this comment. We are at organization phase until the year end. I proposed our cooperation since this is the kind of support we want to provide. Our target is to only to offer a turrn-key comprhensive test bed (machines, support, test users, test name spaces, monitors, etc.) to DNS related experiments and international name space related efforts. We want to be neutral to the carried studies a part from the operational aspects of having parallel roots systems collecting data in parallel, mutually monitoring their operations and offering compartive test results.At 1:56 AM +0200 2002/10/23, J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:project http://dot-root.com does not plan to be fully ready for a few weeks.I have looked through a good portion of the site so far (including the charter, etc...), and it is still not clear to me just what exactly this group is proposing that they will do. Clearly, a lot of work has been done to put this together, but this is not being communicated effectively to the casual observer.
We would certianly appreciate every help to better present and develop the project: it is open to everyone.
making the idea progress. Testing stability and learning to trust each other. Developping tools for automatic root generation. Having monitoring program tested. No big things but which take time.If we could be of help we would certainly be happy to support this. We have tested for more than 18 months to get the root file updated.Meaning?
Many of the ccTLD zones are openly available for zone transfer. As of the last time I checked, of the 256 total known TLDs (not including the root zone) the following 163 TLDs (and the root zone) were available from at least one server:We would need help in getting gTLD zone files: our purpose is to be purely experiemental but one of the root is to serve as a reference and a support for ccTLDs and Govs and is to a strict copy of the ICANN data (it currently supports the corect IPs for all the German, Autrian and Greek Name severs).
ac ad al am an ao ar arpa as au aw az ba bd bg bj bm bn
bo bs bt bv bw by ci ck cl cm cr cu cv cy cz dj dz ec edu
ee eg er es fi fj fm ga gb gd ge gg gh gi gl gm gn gov gp
gs gt gu gw gy hn hr ht hu id ie il im in int io ir is je
jo ke kg kh ki km kn kz lb lc lk lr ly ma mc mg mh mk ml
mm mn mq mr ms mt museum mv mw my mz nc ne ng ni np pa pe
pg pk pl pro pw py qa ro ru sa se sg sh si sj sk sl sm sn
so st su sv sz tc tf th tj tm tn to tp tr tt tv tz ua ug
uk um uy ve vg vi vn vu ye yu za zm zw
Thank you for this precious information in maintaining our IANA table.
I would encourage you to get a copy of the root zone from B, C, or F, and then try to do zone transfers from all the advertised servers for each TLD. I went about it a slightly harder way -- I reconstructed the root zone from information publicly available elsewhere, and then got copies of all of the above.
Did you find discrepancies with the internic ftp file?
Note that I am going to be addressing this topic in my invited talk at LISA 2002.Where is that?
Are you in Brussels? I plan being there on Nov 22 for a presentation at the Haute Ecole?
Regards.
jfc
