Re: Invalid lan. and local. TLDs

2009-08-31 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 13:24 +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > Or one can just configure your recursive server as a stealth slave > of the root zone. You make a qery every hour or so and transfer > it twice a day. > I have been wondering how to do a transfer twice a day without having to write somet

Re: Invalid lan. and local. TLDs

2009-08-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <1251578984.4460.6.ca...@jhorne.homelinux.net>, John Horne writes: > On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 13:24 +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message , "Bill Larson" writes: > > > John Horne said: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I noticed one of the root servers stats > > > > ( http://stat

Re: Invalid lan. and local. TLDs

2009-08-29 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 13:24 +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > In message , "Bill Larson" writes: > > John Horne said: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I noticed one of the root servers stats > > > ( http://stats.l.root-servers.org/cgi-bin/dsc-grapher.pl? > > window=604800&plot=qtype_vs_invalid_tld&server

Re: Invalid lan. and local. TLDs

2009-08-28 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , "Bill Larson" writes: > John Horne said: > > > Hello, > > > > I noticed one of the root servers stats > > ( http://stats.l.root-servers.org/cgi-bin/dsc-grapher.pl? > window=604800&plot=qtype_vs_invalid_tld&server=L-root ) of queried invalid > TLDs, as at the moment we have no 'loc

Re: Invalid lan. and local. TLDs

2009-08-28 Thread Bill Larson
John Horne said: > Hello, > > I noticed one of the root servers stats > ( http://stats.l.root-servers.org/cgi-bin/dsc-grapher.pl? window=604800&plot=qtype_vs_invalid_tld&server=L-root ) of queried invalid TLDs, as at the moment we have no 'local.' or 'lan.' zones configured. Hence, any such qu

Re: Invalid lan. and local. TLDs

2009-08-28 Thread Joe Baptista
One thing the root should know - as a rule is the location of localhost. There is after all just one address associated with it 127.0.0.1. There should be no localhost queries to the root as a rule - but misconfigured servers result in this traffic to the root which is listed as invalid. If the ro

Invalid lan. and local. TLDs

2009-08-28 Thread John Horne
Hello, I noticed one of the root servers stats ( http://stats.l.root-servers.org/cgi-bin/dsc-grapher.pl?window=604800&plot=qtype_vs_invalid_tld&server=L-root ) of queried invalid TLDs, as at the moment we have no 'local.' or 'lan.' zones configured. Hence, any such queries from us go out to the