Negative zones; NXDOMAIN responses

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>> On 21.05.13 11:03, Mark Andrews wrote:
>> >	The simplest solution is to slave the root zone and
>> >	turn off notify to so you don't spam the official
>> >	root servers.  192.5.5.241 is f.root-servers.net.

>In message <20130521072352.GA17623 at fantomas.sk>, Matus UHLAR - fantomas writes:
>> I thought this is not oficially recommended for ordinary users to prevent
>> root servers from being overloaded (transfers use much more resources than
>> ordinary lookups). Has this changed?

On 21.05.13 18:02, Mark Andrews wrote:
>Zone transfers of the root zone by recursive servers would actually
>reduce the overall load on root nameservers.  The bigger the recursive
>server the more this is true as most queries to the root servers
>are for non-existent domains.  Actual referrals get cached which
>draws legitimate traffic away from the root servers towards the TLD
>servers.  16 SOA queries a day plus 2 AXFR/IXFR requests for normal
>operations.
>
>Just don't add lots the root servers in the masters cause as the
>root server operators do check that their servers are transfering
>the root zone.

But this makesthe situation worse for those who decided to do the slaving 
- it creates a risk that root server forbids slaving in the future and after
zone expiration the resolution will fail for all zones.

...I did slave root at my former employee (an ISP in slovakia), since I
believed that this ISP is big enough that even roots would benefit from
lower traffic. I found that 5 of root servers allow the transfer.
and I found that the traffic towards root servers is really smaller enough.

I'm just asking if this is wise for small hosts/companies.
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