Claiming Authority for root

[Johnny Fribert Lauridsen]

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?
Thanks,
/Johnny


At 21:07 29/06/2000 +0100, Jim Reid wrote:
> >>>>> "Barry" == Barry Margolin <barmar at genuity.net> writes:
>
>     Barry> Actually, there's one way I can think of to avoid causing
>     Barry> problems with this.  Even though your server is
>     Barry> authoritative for the root zone, it doesn't need to list
>     Barry> itself in the NS records in the zone.  Put all the standard
>     Barry> ROOT-SERVER.NET NS records in your root zone, and they'll
>     Barry> be copied into the Authority Records section of the
>     Barry> replies.
>
>Good idea. But DON'T do that if you have a private root zone on a
>network that doesn't have connectivity to the internet. Then again if
>someone has such a network they should already know that.