On 03/15/2013 03:34 PM, Steve Crocker wrote:
> 
> On Mar 15, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Hugo Salgado <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 03/14/2013 07:44 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
>>> (Aside: if AS112++ servers were happy to slave the zone, e.g. from ICANN, 
>>> we could sign it and install a DS RRSet in the ARPA zone. This would have 
>>> the side benefit that we could track from ICANN's distribution masters who 
>>> is retrieving the zone, and hence where the AS112++ operators were. So, 
>>> this is also AS112 with DNSSEC, and it's measurable.)
>>>
>>
>> Also has the benefit of penalizing when a slave becomes stalled,
>> going bogus when signatures expires.
>>
>> A resolver which falls in a bogus nameserver should try with the
>> next one. So I think the organisations should host only one NS of the
>> complete set, giving the chance of diversity.
> 
> It feels like there are two distinct issues here.  If the signatures expire, 
> all copies of those records will be affected, so diversity of name servers 
> won't help.
> 

But the expiration affects only the instance that went stalled. The rest
of correctly-slaved secondaries should maintain fresh signatures.

Hugo


> Diversity of name servers is certainly helpful in countering operational 
> failures of equipment or network connectivity.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
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