[92020] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spain was offline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Sep 1 02:12:58 2006
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:11:42 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:50:29 -0400
>From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
>Subject: Re: Spain was offline
>
>
[ SNIP ]
>You seem to be suggesting that ISPs run stealth slaves for these
>kinds of zones. This may have been a useful pointer for ISPs in days
>gone by, but I think today it's impractical advice.
How so? Anyone can get a zone and turn up [a-m] on-net
and outperform (response and uptime) many of the existing
instances of root servers. I'm quite confident it would work
as designed.
Where's Dean Anderson when you need him?
-M<
--
Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663
Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574
Member of Technical Staff Network Operations
hannigan@renesys.com