Journal of Internet Disasters

Sat Nov 14 00:17:13 UTC 1998

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com>
To: nanog at merit.edu <nanog at merit.edu>
Date: Saturday, November 14, 1998 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: Journal of Internet Disasters

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>
>other servers are more conservative, and had switched to manual daily FTP
>of the COM zone longer ago than F has done.  (with manual daily FTP you
>get the advantages of gzip, and of the pretense of "zone master" status
>while you manually retry after timeouts.  AXFR needs those properties.)
>

wouldn't a new transfer type (AZFR/IZFR) be useful here, being basically
AXFR/IXFR but piped through gzip on each end?

These would need to be negotiated (based onversion number) of course,
but would help a lot with large zones like COM...