Re: [DNSOP] feedback on draft-wkumari-dnsop-dist-root-00

2014-06-22 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Jun 22, 2014, at 2:14 AM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: Reactions have been, um, mixed. Some folk say it;s a no-brainer, others seriously dislike the idea. As I understand it, this changes DNS caches so that for the root zone its behavior is somewhere between a cache and a secondary

Re: [DNSOP] feedback on draft-wkumari-dnsop-dist-root-00

2014-06-22 Thread John Levine
As I understand it, this changes DNS caches so that for the root zone its behavior is somewhere between a cache and a secondary master. The cache remains precisely a cache. I understand that it's still a cache in the DNS hierarchy, but in operation, it's much more like a secondary master.

Re: [DNSOP] feedback on draft-wkumari-dnsop-dist-root-00

2014-06-22 Thread Joe Abley
On 22 Jun 2014, at 11:54, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: As I understand it, this changes DNS caches so that for the root zone its behavior is somewhere between a cache and a secondary master. The cache remains precisely a cache. I understand that it's still a cache in the DNS

Re: [DNSOP] feedback on draft-wkumari-dnsop-dist-root-00

2014-06-22 Thread John R Levine
I understand that it's still a cache in the DNS hierarchy, but in operation, it's much more like a secondary master. Like a secondary, it bulk fetches the zone, answers all queries about that zone from its own copy, and uses the SOA times to decide when to fetch again. There are some

Re: [DNSOP] feedback on draft-wkumari-dnsop-dist-root-00

2014-06-22 Thread Mark Andrews
In message alpine.bsf.2.11.1406221459160.94...@joyce.lan, John R Levine writes: I understand that it's still a cache in the DNS hierarchy, but in operation, it's much more like a secondary master. Like a secondary, it bulk fetches the zone, answers all queries about that zone from its

Re: [DNSOP] feedback on draft-wkumari-dnsop-dist-root-00

2014-06-22 Thread Ralf Weber
On 22 Jun 2014, at 18:41, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: On 22 Jun 2014, at 11:54, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: As I understand it, this changes DNS caches so that for the root zone its behavior is somewhere between a cache and a secondary master. The cache remains