slave on per-zone basis only?

[Pete Ehlke]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:20:58PM -0800, WebReactor Networks wrote:
> 
> Let us assume that you will be adding zones which reside under multiple TLDs (com, net, org, uk, cz, etc.).  Make your master and slave servers root name servers.  
> 
>   // Master named.conf 
>   zone "." {
>     type master; 
>     file "db.root";
>   };
> 
> Now, having said that, what negative side effects can be expected from a configuration like this?  It has been working well for almost a year now, and the only complaint I've received was that the registrar for Switzerland (.ch) and Liechtenstein (.li) requires SOA records for a domain before they will register it.
> 
First of all, please configure your mail/news client to wrap lines at
less than 80 characters. Long lines like this are exceedingly annoying
to those of us (likely the vast majority in a forum like this one) who
use terminal-based clients.

The problem with this scheme is that it's a blueprint for how to engage
in cache poisoning. When you pass along Additional records that claim
that your server is authoritative for '.', you will, sooner or later,
poison someone else's cache. You break other people's servers for the
sake of your own convenience. That's rude, to say the least.

-Pete