To:
Bruce Campbell <bruce.campbell@apnic.net>, Stuart Kwan <skwan@Exchange.Microsoft.com>
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se, Levon Esibov <levone@Exchange.Microsoft.com>
From:
Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
Date:
Tue, 02 May 2000 08:06:42 +0200
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<Pine.BSF.4.21.0004250935270.12828-100000@julubu.staff.apnic.net>
Sender:
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Subject:
RE: root server load and dynamic updates.
At 10:00 25.04.2000 +1000, Bruce Campbell wrote:
>On the off chance that the above behaviour of Win2K may (eventually) be a
>serious annoyance to the root servers, I'd request the following patches
>in the next release/service patch to Win2K:
>
> Do not send dynamic updates to anything that is listed in the SOA
> record of a 'one label' zone (ie, com, net, org, all TLDs) .
OK - assuming that "anything that is listed in the SOA record" means
"anything that is listed in the SOA record of the zone you're looking at".
> Do not send dynamic updates to anything that is listed in the SOA
> record of a two label zone in the CCTLDs (ie, com.au, co.nz,
> ac.uk).
Breaks seriously for CCTLDs that don't use the secondary level, like .no,
.se, .fr and many others. My private domain is a two-label zone.
> Do not send dynamic updates to anything that is listed in the SOA
> record of a three label zone in in-addr.arpa (ie,
> 193.in-addr.arpa, 203.in-addr.arpa etc).
>
> Do not send dynamic updates to anything that is listed in the SOA
> record of a eight label zone in ip6.int or in6-addr.arpa
> (whichever).
OK.
Harald
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no