[21425] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Journal of Internet Disasters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mathias Koerber)
Fri Nov 13 22:17:49 1998
Reply-To: "Mathias Koerber" <mathias@koerber.org>
From: "Mathias Koerber" <mathias@koerber.org>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>, "Paul Vixie" <paul@vix.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 08:17:13 +0800
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Saturday, November 14, 1998 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: Journal of Internet Disasters
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>
>other servers are more conservative, and had switched to manual daily FTP
>of the COM zone longer ago than F has done. (with manual daily FTP you
>get the advantages of gzip, and of the pretense of "zone master" status
>while you manually retry after timeouts. AXFR needs those properties.)
>
wouldn't a new transfer type (AZFR/IZFR) be useful here, being basically
AXFR/IXFR but piped through gzip on each end?
These would need to be negotiated (based onversion number) of course,
but would help a lot with large zones like COM...
