[137542] in North American Network Operators' Group
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Wed Feb 16 16:26:14 2011
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <26249556.338.1297885804108.JavaMail.franck@franck-martins-macbook-pro.local>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:25:13 -0800
To: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much =
effect; that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn. What was effective =
was the withdrawal of BGP prefixes.
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml =
notes, for example, that routes *through* Egypt were operational, but =
routes through the same fiber and the same routers *to* Egypt were =
non-functional.
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https://labs.ripe.net/Members/akvadrako/live_eqyptian_internet_incident_an=
alysis pretty clearly states that "prefixes associated with Egyptian =
ISPs were withdrawn".
On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Franck Martin wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Martin Millnert" <millnert@gmail.com>
>> To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@americafree.tv>
>> Cc: "North American Network Operators Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2011 8:28:22 AM
>> Subject: Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found =91Off=92 Switch for =
Internet
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Marshall Eubanks =
<tme@americafree.tv>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:
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>> Operating local IRC networks is good, as is having local OS mirrors,
>> such as Debian/Ubuntu and let's not forget, having a resilient DNS
>> configuration (root zone copy hint 101: "dig @k.root-servers.net. .
>> axfr"). A securely distributed
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> Would it make sense for an ISP to "store" the root zone on their DNS =
servers instead of letting it be refreshed by the DNS cache? A cron job =
could refresh it from time to time. It would avoid entries from expiring =
and would always serve to clients entries with max ttl?
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> A root server would be better, but that could be an intermediary step?
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> Just speaking out loud here, so it may be total non-sense...
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