Acting as stealth slave for root zone

[Paul Vixie]

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> writes:

> > Eventually, I tried something that I fully expected not to work: I
> > tried to pull a copy of the root zone by zone transfer from the root
> > servers themselves.  It worked!  I'd expected the query to be
> > refused.
> ...
> > Is this new/temporary behavior?  The spirited discussion a few weeks
> > ago engendered by the idea of grabbing the root zone by ftp would
> > seem to indicate that zone transfers have not always been permitted.
> 
> I believe that F and K always authorized it.

Certainly F has always allowed zone transfers of the root zone, even when
it was called NS.ISC.ORG back before the letter-names came into being.  It
is ISC's intention to permit AXFR of the root zone from f-root, always.
-- 
Paul Vixie