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> > 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? > Who is responsible if this set-up fails? > > Who is responsible if it lies? > > Who is likely to get blamed for any failures? > > Would this require explicit consent from all customers > subject to such treatment? > > Would this require a possibility for each custoemr to opt out > of such a scheme? Aren't all of these questions private issues between the private network operator and their customers? The same thing applies to companies who use IP addresses inside their private networks that are officially registered to someone else. This is a fairly common practice and yet it rarely causes problems on the public Internet. Since Internet network operators are generally not regulated in how they operate their IP networks, it seems to me that the people who say that it is not proper to announce root netblocks in a private network are really calling for network regulation by an external authority. > And - ah yes - what particular problem does such a set-up solve? It seemed to me to be a theoretical question not intended to solve a particular problem. However, theoretically, a network that sources a lot of DDoS traffic to root servers could do this to attract the traffic to their local copy of the root server in order to analyze it. Theoretically, this is something that would be enabled by the hypothetical situation described above. --Michael Dillon
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