DNS - slaving the root zone

[Damien Fleuriot]

Hello list, Jeremy, Doug,


We're currently having a discussion on the FRnOG mailing list regarding
the laughable announcement of an attack on the DNS root servers by
Anonymous.

I've kinda hijacked the thread to ask whether people slave the root zone
or not, and why if not.


Active poster, renowned blogger and AFNIC worker Stephane Bortzmeyer
pointed out that it might not be a good idea and submitted the following
discussion from 2007 as reference:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-August/075895.html


Do you still believe slaving the root zone to be a bad idea ?

I actually do it on production 8-STABLE boxes here, seems to work well
enough.