[81967] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Fri Jul 8 15:24:16 2005
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 06:43:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050704221055.8AA5513A76@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Paul Vixie wrote:
> for those excellent readers who didn't follow this, here's an excerpt from
> <http://european.de.orsn.net/faq.php#opmode>:
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> what this means is, it can't conflict with ICANN data other than that
> if ICANN deletes something it might not show up in ORSN. mathematically
> speaking that's a superset, but politically speaking it's not at all
> like an alternative root.
While I doubt ICANN would delete a TLD zone (and if that happened it would
presumably be for "dead" tld which no requests are expected to come to),
I'm concerned that their system might work in regards to to host glue
records which there are quite a number of in root zone. If some nameserver
is no longer used by TLD and and now it wants to change its ip address,
it would presumably request deletion of its glue record from root zone
and then be able to change ip with no effect on anyone on the net. But
if ORSN does not pick it up this would mean they will continue to use
old ip address and that would cause inconsistency (which I suspect will
not be easy to track either).
What I don't understand why for their project they don't just go ahead
and copy ICANN root zone as-is.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net
