On Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 16:52:21 +1100, O Plameras wrote: >Peter Hardy wrote: >>O Plameras wrote: >>>The authority to associate NAME to ip address has to be propagated up >>>to the ROOT servers. You mean >>>to say that AARNET can do this without the express approval from the >>>owners of 203.7.132.1 ? NO, aarnet.edu.au cannot, otherwise it is >>>against >>>the rules and perhaps against the law. >>> >>>The rest of my responses is implied by the above. >> >>I'd strongly suggest you get hold of a good book on DNS, and find out >>how it works before trying to explain it to anybody else. I found the >>introductory chapters of "DNS and BIND" ( >>http://safari.oreilly.com/0596100574 ) to be most illuminating. >> > >I have first, second, and third editions. I have the third edition in >front of me. > >The book covers the technical process. Unfortunately, it does not cover >the bureaucratic >processes. The processes not covered by the book is the one that I am >revealing to you. > >For example, technically aarnet.edu.au can propagate up to the ROOT >Servers.
Technically aarnet.edu.au doesn't need to propagate anything "up" to the ROOT servers. That is not the way DNS works, rather the client contacts the ROOT servers and then goes down from there (ignoring any caching). So really, aarnet.edu.au doesn't need to propagate anything at all. B -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
