Re: Spain was offline

[Martin Hannigan <hannigan () renesys com>]

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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