DNS - Summary?

[Jun Kuriyama]

At Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:27:36 -0400,
Ken Smith wrote:
> 	1)The current country-code based delegation for all zones will
> 	  stay in place, being able to handle DNS locally is required
> 	  for any region's country code to exist in the FreeBSD namespace.

> 	2)It will be the responsibility of that country code's DNS admins
> 	  (or local people they decide on) to handle all DNS requests
> 	  for that region on their own.

Agreed.  I'll request dnsadm@ to give us current CC zone (and its
administrator contact) list to clarify current status.

> 	3)The US sites will be moved to us.freebsd.org and someone will
> 	  be set up in a role to handle (2) for that zone.
> 
> 	4)The TLD sites "www.freebsd.org", "ftp*.freebsd.org", etc. will,
> 	  as someone else suggested, become the best of the currently
> 	  available mirror sites regardless of country they're in.
> 
> If you can either say that's correct or let us know what needs to be
> researched/discussed more I think that would help.  If the above is
> correct I could take this and work out the next step towards what you
> asked for.  I think you are the only one at this point who could say
> one way or another whether (2) is correct or if the people who make
> up dnsadm@ would be willing to take on administering a country code's
> zone if the people in that country code could not for some reason.

As one of hostmaster at jp.FreeBSD.org, I'd say (2) is correct.  We are
responsible to maintain jp.FreeBSD.org domain for years and
(hopefully) administered as quickly as we can.

The direction of (3) and (4) seems good.  I think we should "add"
ftp*.us.FreeBSD.org from ftp*.FreeBSD.org (not "move") to keep
currently available famous mirrors.


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Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama at imgsrc.co.jp> // IMG SRC, Inc.
             <kuriyama at FreeBSD.org> // FreeBSD Project