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> Again, I have redirected followups to [email protected] since this is not a > NANOG issue. > > > >Also, is it possible that the recent problems NANOG > > >people have been discussing regarding Root Name Servers > > >is really the result of these transitions to TRUE Root > > >Name Servers ? > > > > If whatever you are doing, however you are implimenting it > > for whatever reasons, caused corrupted data in h.root-servers.net > > and the subsequent failures, then you are a menace to the network > > and should cease and desist activities. You have clearly stated > > that your servers don't carry the .com domain directly; if you do > > something which crashes the servers that do carry .com you will > > likely find yourself sucking air over your ether pipes. > > > > You could, of course, merely be confused about what happened a > > few days ago. I would hope this is the case. > > Older BIND servers do in fact become confused in the presence of multiple > (disparite) authority declarations for the same domain ("." for example). > Anyone who has a primary/secondary relationship (direct or indirect) with > a server who subscribes to private "." data is likely to become confused > in a way that only occasional nameserver restarts will repair. Balderdash. If that were true, we'd have to restart occasionally to clear this, and we don't. > BIND 8.1 is more immune to this than BIND 4.9.5 was, but in fact there is > no "final and complete" solution to this problem other than DNS Security. > > I do not think the problems with H recently had to do with AlterNIC, though. Ie: "I intend to break alternative, private root arrangements, by including code which prevents people from doing this". Good luck Paul. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | 99 Analog numbers, 77 ISDN, Web servers $75/mo Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "[email protected]" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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