Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >.. > What DNS really needs is for major ISP's to get regular zone transfers > with incremental update from the roots. A good example of this > hierarchical structure is ntp. > > An ntp client is never supposed to hit a Tier-1 or Tier-2, it is > supposed to hit something much more local (see the fiasco with Netgear > and Poul-Henning Kamp for what happens when this breaks down). > Generally, every ISP runs a Tier-3 time service. This should be the > same with DNS. > > Then, recursive queries stop at the ISP 99.9% of the time. In addition, > the DNS system can quite easily survive the loss of a root since the > ISP's would just hold the entire table until the next zone transfer > occurs (ie. no timeout at full zone level). > > All it would take is one single root and one major ISP to start making > this work. Then network effects can take over.
So, has this idea been proposed somewhere (other than here? <heh>). ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
