From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 22:52:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313181065674 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:52:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-197-151.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA6F15118C; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:52:41 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F417D39.2010606@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:52:41 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120218 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terrence Koeman References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Damien Fleuriot , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , Jeremy Chadwick Subject: Re: DNS - slaving the root zone X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:52:42 -0000 On 02/19/2012 10:39, Terrence Koeman wrote: > I'm just done converting from named.root to slaving the root, I > checked which servers allow axfr (at least for me...) and added them > all as masters. Given that some of the root server operators don't really like people doing this routinely it would be net.friendlier to list the ICANN servers first. They are just as up to date as the live root servers. > Multiple masters would substantially decrease the > risk of stale zones, yes? Yes. > Also, I was wondering, now that I slave . and arpa, is it still > beneficial to retain the 'empty zones' that fall within those or are > they redundant? They are not redundant, and yes, they are still beneficial. Doug -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/