Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?)

bert hubert ahu at ds9a.nl
Wed Sep 17 09:11:27 UTC 2003


On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 05:13:45AM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:

> therefore i believe that while they may have to change the A RR from time to 
> time according to their transit contracts, verisign won't insert an NS RR
> into the sitefinder redirection.  if they do, and if bind's user community
> still wants to avoid sitefinder, they can declare the second server "bogus",
> with no new code changes from isc.  but that all seems terribly unlikely.

I for one expect a small arms race over this - I'm not implementing the
end-all solution quite yet as I expect some further moves by VRSN.

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