[as112-ops] hidden secondary for iana.org?

[Joe Abley]

On 20-May-2009, at 04:45, Aleksi Suhonen wrote:

> I see queries for prisoner.iana.org and blackhole-#.iana.org quite  
> often on our AS112 server

That's interesting. Do you have any idea why?

Is your AS112 server doing dual-duty as some other kind of server? Or  
are there clients which normally send queries for IANA.ORG to the  
AS112 servers, just for fun?

> and while it's not authoritative for that zone, I don't see any  
> reason why it couldn't be authoritative.

You can host whatever zone you want on your own servers, of course.  
However, ...

> Apart from IANA's willingness to share access to such hidden  
> secondaries of course.
>
> Thoughts? Comments?

... I'm not sure what benefit slaving IANA.ORG would really have for  
anybody, over the normal referral path to the IANA.ORG authoritative  
servers.


Joe