>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Thomas <[email protected]> writes:
    Ted> You secondary a zone so that the contents of the zone will be
    Ted> there when a query happens, but why would a query happen if the
    Ted> CPE device isn't reachable?  What would trigger that query?  So
    Ted> I think you can get away with _not_ secondarying the zone.  But
    Ted> if you do want to secondary it, why would the ISP be
    Ted> responsible for that?  Presumably the customer is pretty savvy;
    Ted> a secondary for their reverse tree would just be another
    Ted> service they'd want to buy or set up, and the ISP could wash
    Ted> their hands of it or sell it, whichever they chose.

    >> My suggestion is that the ISP secondary the zone from the CPE,
    >> but actually advertise only their server in the NS delegation.
    >> (The CPE remains a stealth primary)

    Michael> Do you mean (in bind parlance at least) the CPE is the
    Michael> master, and the ISP is the slave even though it's
    Michael> authoritative?

Yes, and when I first started this thread, I had forgotten that
draft-mglt-front-end-naming-delegation-00.txt, says something very
similar.

-- 
Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works 


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