Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

Wed Feb 16 19:50:04 UTC 2011

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Millnert" <millnert at gmail.com>
> To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme at americafree.tv>
> Cc: "North American Network Operators Group" <nanog at nanog.org>
> Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2011 8:28:22 AM
> Subject: Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Marshall Eubanks <tme at americafree.tv>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:
> >
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> Operating local IRC networks is good, as is having local OS mirrors,
> such as Debian/Ubuntu and let's not forget, having a resilient DNS
> configuration (root zone copy hint 101: "dig @k.root-servers.net. .
> axfr"). A securely distributed

Would it make sense for an ISP to "store" the root zone on their DNS servers instead of letting it be refreshed by the DNS cache? A cron job could refresh it from time to time. It would avoid entries from expiring and would always serve to clients entries with max ttl?

A root server would be better, but that could be an intermediary step?

Just speaking out loud here, so it may be total non-sense...