Problems with named default configuration in 6-STABLE

[Heiko Wundram (Beenic)]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 10:52:43 Volker wrote:
> <snip>
> Relying on a zone transfer doesn't seem to be reliable to me as more
> than half of the root servers doesn't reply to AXFR requests.

I've heard pretty much the same thing as you did wrt. root name servers 
denying AXFR, but as "it works" (TM), I don't see a reason not to use it. And 
it seems that the author of the FreeBSD default named.conf thought likewise, 
which is pretty okay with me (from the experience I gathered this morning).

By the way: using the roots as hints only adds to the number of requests your 
server has to do in order to retrieve first-level domain name servers, so in 
the end, the transmitted data should be way higher than doing one AXFR to 
find them (simply because you'll see a large subset of those toplevel domains 
being requested when you're publically offering a DNS server). And the data 
is also cached on an AXFR in persistant storage, which is another major 
benefit (for me).

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