[as112-ops] season's greetings

[Nick Hilliard]

On 13/02/2013 23:01, Joe Abley wrote:
> On 2013-02-13, at 17:56, Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> wrote:
>> On 13/02/2013 22:49, Joe Abley wrote:
>>> There's running code for the as112 authority server. As far as we can
>>> tell, no resolvers need modification.
>>
>> so you just set up any old dns server with an empty root zone or something?
> 
> Nope, you run the aforementioned code on the as112 server and it
> responds to queries in the manner described in the draft.

oright, didn't figure that "the as112 authority server" was the name of a
chunk of running code, doh.

> Serving a fake root zone doesn't play well with negative caching, as it
> turns out, because the SOA returned with the name error is ignored by
> well-adjusted resolvers.

it was my reading of the draft that running a regular auth server wasn't
going to work.

Nick