[137552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Complete
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Feb 16 18:06:18 2011
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4D5C50B8.5070804@dougbarton.us>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:05:16 -0500
To: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
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Cc: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
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On 2011-02-16, at 17:33, Doug Barton wrote:
> This leads to 2 additional questions:
>=20
> 1. Is the zone available from those 2 locations "the same" as what's
> available on the authoritative servers, or is there a lag time between
> updates on the auth and the xfr servers?
The two servers mentioned transfer the zone from the same place as the =
*.in-addr-servers.arpa servers. They're a little closer than some of the =
other servers. I imagine some propagation lag between them would be =
visible with the right instrumentation. The speed of light is the speed =
of light.
> 2. Is there any objection to having those servers listed in publicly
> available documentation on how to configure resolvers to slave the =
root
> and related zones?
My personal opinion is that such advice is misguided, but we place no =
restrictions on the soundness of the reasons for transferring zones from =
those places :-)
Joe
