Re: Spain was offline

[Martin Hannigan <hannigan () renesys com>]

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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