[92030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spain was offline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Sep 1 12:38:50 2006
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060901010445.02271220@renesys.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:37:53 -0400
To: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 1-Sep-2006, at 02:11, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> >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.
The root servers are easy; the zone is tiny and the update frequency
is miniscule.
We were talking about TLD servers.
Joe
