[48526] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Thu Jun 6 13:31:05 2002
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:28:18 -0700
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: Daniel Concepcion <dani@intelideas.com>
Cc: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@COLT.NET>,
Joao Luis Silva Damas <joao@ripe.net>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
Daniel Diaz <ddiaz@ripe.net>, routing-wg@ripe.net, lir-wg@ripe.net,
nanog@merit.edu, apnic-talk@lists.apnic.net
In-Reply-To: <200206061624.40230.dani@intelideas.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:24:40PM +0200, Daniel Concepcion wrote:
>
> Yes Neil,
>
> It should be interesting to know the 'official' requirements/recommendations
> for ccTLD's hosting
> For example: diversity geographical, network needs, security needs, building
> environment., etc
I've only been able to find a best practise guideline that specifies
that the nameserver be online 24/7.
(http://www.wwtld.org/ongoing/bestpractices/BestPractice_10Mar2001.html)
I found it interesting to note that a significant number of cctld servers
ignore the suggestions for root-servers in BCP40/RFC2870...
"Other major zone server operators (gTLDs, ccTLDs, major zones) may also find
it useful." and leave recursion enabled on the ccTLD servers (2.5) - the old
ns.eu.net was one of these, I believe RIPE have done the right thing with the
new one.
What is even more disturbing is that there is a non-zero number of ccTLD
servers that are still cache poisonable.
