[16873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zone file access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Fri May 15 03:35:13 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Date: 15 May 1998 00:28:02 -0700
In-Reply-To: horak@pa.dec.com's message of 14 May 1998 07:41:26 -0700
> > Dear Customer,
> >
> > Thank you for contacting Network Solutions, Inc., InterNIC
> > Registration Services.
> >
> > We cannot give you access to our database for all records, other than
> > what is in our whois database, is confidential and not available to the
> > public.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > II
> > Network Solutions, Inc.
Network Solutions has never actually asked me to stop allowing full outbound
zone transfers of all InterNIC TLD's from F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. According to
my logs, "dig @192.5.5.241 xxx axfr > xxx.zone" is a rather popular command:
[dns1.pa:alpha] wc -l xfer.log*
1702 xfer.log
306 xfer.log.0
5560 xfer.log.1
3219 xfer.log.2
16859 xfer.log.3
12066 xfer.log.4
39712 total
[dns1.pa:alpha] ls -l xfer.log*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 162968 May 15 00:22 xfer.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 29856 May 7 17:00 xfer.log.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 546016 May 6 22:01 xfer.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 325942 Apr 15 21:05 xfer.log.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 1724302 Apr 6 19:08 xfer.log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 1194194 Feb 28 11:35 xfer.log.4
If NSI should ask me to restrict outbound zone transfers, then I would of
course immediately ask the IANA whether to comply with that request. And
so now you all know why BIND-8's first development priority was to stop
forking for outbound zone transfers -- I can export the COM zone 50 times
in parallel (and I sometimes do) without changing the runtime profile of
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
--
Paul Vixie
La Honda, CA
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pacbell!vixie!paul longer than most." --Jim Fleming
