Claiming Authority for root
Mathias Koerber
mathias at koerber.org
Thu Jun 29 22:56:42 UTC 2000
Kevin Darcy wrote:
|Barry Margolin wrote:
|> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:32:01 +0200
|> From: Johnny Fribert Lauridsen <jlaurids at cisco.com>
|>
|> I may be blind somehow, but I actually know of a site that wants to
have ownership of root '.',
|> and still wants to be able to access the Internet. Are you saying
that this is not possible, or
|> do you have an idea as to how it is possible?
|> The only way I can think of to do that is for them to copy the Internet's
|> root zone file and merge their changes into it, redoing this every time
it
|> changes.
|> The root zone isn't very large and doesn't change often (only when
changes
|> happen to TLD delegations), so this is probably feasible.
|The only minor wart I can think of with this is that the SOA returned for
NXDOMAIN responses might not
|match the real root SOA exactly. Of course, with wildcards and whatnot, you
could ensure that your
|server would never return an NXDOMAIN...
The only 'minor' wart I see with this is that one day the Internet's root
file may (will?)
contain some entries that clash with their own... :-(
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