[92034] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spain was offline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Sep 1 13:53:32 2006
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:47:23 -0400
To: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <FC257D34-8E55-48D4-A26C-16452466B73C@ca.afilias.info>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 12:37 PM 9/1/2006, Joe Abley wrote:
>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.
I can't get a TLD zone? But back to the root servers. Are you
agreering with me that if I announce F and I root's netblocks
inside of my own network that everyone would be ok with that?
C'mon Joe, straight answer on that one. :)
-M<
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