[23587] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Solutions is now in the wringer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Porter)
Sun Mar 28 12:24:10 1999
To: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Mar 1999 22:43:45 EST."
<3.0.6.32.19990327224345.00d4ad00@norfolk.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 11:22:37 -0600
From: Jeremy Porter <jerry@freeside.fc.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <3.0.6.32.19990327224345.00d4ad00@norfolk.infi.net>, Dean Robb writes:
>
>At 01:22 3/27/99 -0600, Sean Donelan wrote:
>>
>>pceasy@norfolk.INfi.NET (Dean Robb) writes:
>>>While not a network operator, I think it would be most prudent to consider
>>>and discuss (among those who ARE netops) what do to if, say, the root
>>>server were suddenly comletely unaccessible for several days/permanently
>>>for *whatever* reason.
>>
>>Duh, isn't that why there is more than one root server in the world?
>
>My concern is with the master server that NSI operates. My hope was that a
>netop who *didn't* have a contingency plan might start putting one together.
>
>>However I feel some people confuse the data in the root servers, with
>>the databases used to generate those zone files. There is a subtle, but
>>important difference. And why simply copying the zone files is not
>>sufficient.
>
>So who has copies of the databases? If NSI's master (the a-root?) is
>unavailable, new domains obviously wouldn't propagate, but how long can the
>other root servers go without getting an update? Does the system as
>currently configured *require* some server somewhere to be the master and
>is there one that can take over if NSI's are toast?
origin = A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
mail addr = hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET
serial = 1999032605
refresh = 1800 (30M)
retry = 900 (15M)
expire = 604800 (1W)
minimum ttl = 86400 (1D)
Well the expire is 1W so by default the zones will be valid in all servers for a week
after a.root-servers.net goes away (if that were to happen.)
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