[92039] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spain was offline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Sep 1 16:54:46 2006
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:53:26 -0400
To: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6BBA2469-918B-4E11-AC24-7312F123381E@ca.afilias.info>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 03:50 PM 9/1/2006, Joe Abley wrote:
>On 1-Sep-2006, at 15:07, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>
>>Well, let's rephrase that. Anyone can't get a TLD zone?
>
>While there are many smaller TLD zones that don't get updated very
>often and which have wide-open AXFR to all and sundry, I'm betting
>that the majority of zones that people on this list care about either
>update sufficiently rapidly that zone synchronisation is non-trivial,
>or have zone transfer restrictions in place, or both.
Good information. Thanks.
>>What could F or I do if an operator were advertising
>>those blocks internally? Consider them no different than
>>blackholes. It's the same concept.
>
>If you want an answer worth reading, then ask ISC or RIPE. I'm sure
>this is something that has occurred to them to think about.
>
>I could pontificate about the freedom of individual operators to do
>whatever they please versus the wider issue of coherence and
>consistency in the DNS, but it'd just be so much Friday-afternoon noise.
>
>
Now I'm disappointed because I know you have some likely
excellent thoughts on this topic regardless of who you are
working for, or have worked for, but I completely understand.
Thanks, I enjoyed it. :)
/me back to lurk
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Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663
Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574
Member of Technical Staff Network Operations
hannigan@renesys.com
