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Re: Journal of Internet Disasters

  • From: Mathias Koerber
  • Date: Fri Nov 13 22:18:47 1998 
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Vixie <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, November 14, 1998 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: Journal of Internet Disasters

[...]
>
>other servers are more conservative, and had switched to manual daily FTP
>of the COM zone longer ago than F has done.  (with manual daily FTP you
>get the advantages of gzip, and of the pretense of "zone master" status
>while you manually retry after timeouts.  AXFR needs those properties.)
>


wouldn't a new transfer type (AZFR/IZFR) be useful here, being basically
AXFR/IXFR but piped through gzip on each end?

These would need to be negotiated (based onversion number) of course,
but would help a lot with large zones like COM...