Claiming Authority for root

[Kevin Darcy]

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...


- Kevin