Re: [DNSOP] Best Practice document on local copy of the root zone?

2007-02-09 Thread Pekka Savola
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, william(at)elan.net wrote: Isn't it better to have several roots anycast and connect at every large enough traffic exchange points (IX) so as to connect to everyone locally that way? How useful that approach is probably depends a lot on how the DNS resolvers' algorithms se

Re: [DNSOP] Best Practice document on local copy of the root zone?

2007-02-09 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:20:59PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > I was surprised that there is apparently no formal document, either > RFC or else, on this subject "Local copy of the root zone considered > harmful | good". Did I miss something? Depending on the ratio of bandwidth available

Re: [DNSOP] Best Practice document on local copy of the root zone?

2007-02-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: There is a thread on the CircleID information site: http://www.circleid.com/posts/attack_internet_root_servers/ which, in the light of this week's attack on root name servers, suggest to keep a local copy of the root zone. I was surprised that t

Re: [DNSOP] Best Practice document on local copy of the root zone?

2007-02-09 Thread Edward Lewis
At 11:09 -0500 2/9/07, Joe Abley wrote: Would, or should? Would. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Edward Lewis+1-571-434-5468 NeuStar "Two years ago you said we had 5-7 years, now you are saying 3-5

Re: [DNSOP] Best Practice document on local copy of the root zone?

2007-02-09 Thread Joe Abley
On 9-Feb-2007, at 10:55, Edward Lewis wrote: At 15:20 +0100 2/9/07, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: There is a thread on the CircleID information site: http://www.circleid.com/posts/attack_internet_root_servers/ which, in the light of this week's attack on root name servers, suggest to keep a loc

Re: [DNSOP] Best Practice document on local copy of the root zone?

2007-02-09 Thread Edward Lewis
At 15:20 +0100 2/9/07, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: There is a thread on the CircleID information site: http://www.circleid.com/posts/attack_internet_root_servers/ which, in the light of this week's attack on root name servers, suggest to keep a local copy of the root zone. To add to "what I've

[DNSOP] Best Practice document on local copy of the root zone?

2007-02-09 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
There is a thread on the CircleID information site: http://www.circleid.com/posts/attack_internet_root_servers/ which, in the light of this week's attack on root name servers, suggest to keep a local copy of the root zone. I was surprised that there is apparently no formal document, either RFC o