Claiming Authority for root

Johnny Fribert Lauridsen jlaurids at cisco.com
Thu Jun 29 19:21:34 UTC 2000


At 12:24 29/06/2000 -0600, Allen Bettiyon wrote:
>This is exactly my concern.  I am wondering how many name servers out
>there would actually be 'stupid' enough to ask me for root request.  One
>would think that the only people asking my server would be those whose
>NS records point to my name servers from the 'real' root servers. 
>However, I have heard rumors that some implementations of dns will do
>otherwise.

Correct, in some DNS SW you can alter the root's and add and delete root name servers as you wish.
I consider that a (good) feature.
/Johnny





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