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From:
Peter Koch <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Date:
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:22:48 +0200
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Your message of "Wed, 23 Oct 2002 01:19:37 PDT." <B9DBA9A9.147AC%david.conrad@nominum.com>
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Subject:
Re: anycast
quoting David Conrad: > There is nothing stopping any ISP from doing what Randy suggested today, > particularly given several of the root servers allow zone transfer. > Similarly, there is nothing stopping any ISP from advertising addresses for > (say) Google and making sure only government approved pages are returned. this includes ISPs being advised by local or regional authorities to implement such or similar optimizations. Unfortunately this is too far away from fiction to be called paranoia. > To borrow a term from Mr. Bush, it would be "prudent" to wait for DNSSEC > signing of the root before going down the "pretend to be a root server" > road. I'd like to second that. There are various proposals for "alternative" or "optimized" root server groups/systems which do or do not add additional TLDs or which "only perform better" in that they provide "accurate" information compared to the official root zone's content (where some operational changes currently suffer from interesting delays). While you can't stop them and probably do not even need to, I'd rather not see any such approaches endorsed by an IETF working group. I still believe RFC 2826 is a good thing. -Peter #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscripbe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.