[62268] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bert hubert)
Wed Sep 17 05:12:03 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:11:27 +0200
From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030917051345.2DC911396E@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 05:13:45AM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> therefore i believe that while they may have to change the A RR from time to
> time according to their transit contracts, verisign won't insert an NS RR
> into the sitefinder redirection. if they do, and if bind's user community
> still wants to avoid sitefinder, they can declare the second server "bogus",
> with no new code changes from isc. but that all seems terribly unlikely.
I for one expect a small arms race over this - I'm not implementing the
end-all solution quite yet as I expect some further moves by VRSN.
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