Re: [DNSOP] Best Practice document on local copy of the root zone?

2007-02-10 Thread Shane Kerr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Abley, then Peter Koch say: I also don't know of any formal undertaking by any of the current real root nameserver operators to leave un-authenticated [AI]XFR access to their servers for the root zone open, so

Re: [DNSOP] Best Practice document on local copy of the root zone?

2007-02-10 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:50:43PM +0100, Paul Wouters wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Pekka Savola wrote: As Bert mentioned in the next message, the risk of outdated (and therefor out-of-sync) roots is real. I just compared the root zone as RedHat shipped it on Fri 07 Sep 2001, with the

Re: [DNSOP] Best Practice document on local copy of the root zone?

2007-02-10 Thread bmanning
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:50:43PM +0100, Paul Wouters wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Pekka Savola wrote: As Bert mentioned in the next message, the risk of outdated (and therefor out-of-sync) roots is real. I just compared the root zone as RedHat shipped it on Fri 07 Sep 2001, with the

Re: [DNSOP] Best Practice document on local copy of the root zone?

2007-02-10 Thread Akira Kato
I just compared the root zone as RedHat shipped it on Fri 07 Sep 2001, with the root zone as published on root-servers.org, and only B and J are different. So even using a 6 year old root zone will work fine in That is the 'hints' file - the discussion is about the full root zone as

Re: [DNSOP] Best Practice document on local copy of the root zone?

2007-02-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: There is a thread on the CircleID information site: http://www.circleid.com/posts/attack_internet_root_servers/ which, in the light of this week's attack on root name servers, suggest to keep a local copy of the root zone. I was surprised that