[53311] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Sat Nov 9 00:19:33 2002
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: william@elan.net
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 04:22:07 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0211081832070.4389-100000@sokol.elan.net> from "william@elan.net" at Nov 08, 2002 06:44:09 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> But seriously are there any volunteers there to run root name servers in
> Europe and Asia or are people now expecting to get paid to it through
> ICANN contract.
last time i was offically detailed to care about such things
the volunteer list was over 100. (circa 1998).
can't say who would want to get paid for it.
> We do need root name server for every continent and
> perhaps something like "official mirror" should be considered where
> somebody would run nameserver with complete mirror of all zones that root
> name server would have but it would not be considered "official root" name
> server (but ISPs in its region would know about and us it). Are other
> regions ever considered something like this to ease load on current root
> servers or perhaps as a first step to having root server there?
why on every continent? this way lies madness. look to topology.
and your mirroring proposal (see otha-sans internet-draft)
has some serious flaws wrt data integrity that really
need to be addressed first. that code is slowly coming.
>
> > patience grasshopper. :)
> > pushing "J" to a distinctly different broadcast domain
> > is the first step to pushing that instance elsewhere.
> > pre-ICANN, things moved fairly quickly as compared to
> > post-ICANN.
--bill
