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Re: Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Wed Sep 17 10:28:45 2003

From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from Stefan Baltus <stefan.baltus@xbn.nl> 
	of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:35:31 +0200."
	<20030917133531.GA19094@xbn.nl> 
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:28:10 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> > : zone "com" { type delegation-only; };
> > : zone "net" { type delegation-only; };
> 
> My first reaction to this was: 'yuck'.

mine also.

> I'm not sure of the side-effects this will introduce. Anyone?

if verisign served a subdomain of com or net on the same server they use
for com or net, and if they issue "minimal responses" (no ns rrs) then
this patch would be a barrier.


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