Re: eating our own dogfood...Re: IPv4 Outage

[Theodore Tso <tytso at mit.edu>]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:20:32PM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:36:34AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > > 	The problem is getting the AAAA records for them published.
> > > 	A local copy of "root-servers.net" with the AAAA records
> > > 	added will suffice.  "www.root-servers.org" will supply
> > > 	you with the necessary information to construct such a
> > > 	zone.
> > 
> > Ok, so I'm sure this is a REALLY dumb question, but what has prevented
> > anyone from taking the informatoin from www.root-servers.org and
> > creating a named.boot file with both the A and AAAA records for the
> > root nameservers, and started telling people to install it?
> 
> 	named.boot is not used after the priming succeeds.

Ah, right.  So that's why we would need to hijack the root zone
information --- so we can add the AAAA records to the root zones.

OK, next stupid question?  Why aren't the AAAA records being published
in the official root zone today?  Is there some good reason, like say
the size of the records returned for the root zone being too big?  And
is something being done to address whatever reasons might exist,
whether they are at the technical or political layer?

						- Ted

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