Claiming Authority for root

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Jun 29 22:43:58 UTC 2000


In article <395BC842.83AE743B at daimlerchrysler.com>,
Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
>Barry Margolin wrote:
>> The only way I can think of to do that is for them to copy the Internet's
>> root zone file and merge their changes into it, redoing this every time it
>> changes.
>>
>> The root zone isn't very large and doesn't change often (only when changes
>> happen to TLD delegations), so this is probably feasible.
>
>The only minor wart I can think of with this is that the SOA returned for
>NXDOMAIN responses might not
>match the real root SOA exactly.

Why not?  If they copy the root zone file from the real root servers, it
should include the real root SOA record.  I don't imagine they would need
to change it when merging in their local changes.

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