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Re: RFC 2870's applicability (Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes)
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk () cisco com>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:33:47 -0500
Thus spake "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles () skynet be>
At 1:23 AM +0000 2002/08/08, Paul Vixie wrote:When I tell USG how I feel, they seem to ignore me. Your mileage may vary.True enough. But their machines could always be removed from the list of known root servers, and I don't think that there's much they could do about it.
The USG runs, directly or indirectly, 6 of the 13 root servers, including A. That means you could only remove the USG from half the servers. One can assume the USG would re-complete their cluster, and the "rogue" roots would flesh out their own cluster. Since most folks haven't updated their root.cache file in a decade, that means half the DNS servers on the Net would pick the USG cluster, and half would pick the non-USG cluster. Once these clusters start offerring different information, the ensuing mess would be horrific. For this reason alone, you'd never convince any of the root operators to go along with such an idea -- their concern is stability, not politics. I'm sure Paul will correct me if I'm wrong on that. S
Current thread:
- Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes, (continued)
- Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes David Conrad (Aug 06)
- Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes Brad Knowles (Aug 06)
- RFC 2870's applicability (Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes) Paul Vixie (Aug 06)
- Re: RFC 2870's applicability (Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes) Brad Knowles (Aug 07)
- Re: RFC 2870's applicability (Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes) Paul Vixie (Aug 07)
- Re: RFC 2870's applicability Ralph Doncaster (Aug 07)
- Re: RFC 2870's applicability Paul Vixie (Aug 07)
- Re: RFC 2870's applicability John M. Brown (Aug 08)
- Re: RFC 2870's applicability (Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes) Patrick (Aug 07)
- Re: RFC 2870's applicability (Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes) Brad Knowles (Aug 09)
- Re: RFC 2870's applicability (Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes) Stephen Sprunk (Aug 09)
- Re: RFC 2870's applicability (Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes) Randy Bush (Aug 09)
- Re: RFC 2870's applicability (Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes) Paul Vixie (Aug 09)
- Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes Adam Rothschild (Aug 06)
- Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes Chris Woodfield (Aug 07)
- RE: Deaggregating for emergency purposes Derek Samford (Aug 07)
- Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 07)
- RE: Deaggregating for emergency purposes Phil Rosenthal (Aug 07)
- Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 06)
- Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes bmanning (Aug 06)