[dns-operations] FreeBSD and the slaving of the root zone

[Joe Abley]

On 2-Aug-2007, at 19:07, Mark Andrews wrote:

>> On 2-Aug-2007, at 10:09, Simon Waters wrote:
>>
>>> The only reason to use the root servers for the AXFR is because
>>> they are expected to offer that information.
>>
>> Except that they are not, the observation that a small handful offer
>> AXFR for diagnostic purposes notwithstanding.
>
> 	They are however the only authoritative source offing it
> 	over the DNS (even if only for diagnotics purposes).

Sure. You'll note that that's a different statement to the one I  
replied to, though.

>   The other source is via ftp.

Data from that source has the advantage of being cryptographically  
signed, although I'm not sure whether I know a way to trust the key  
that did the signing.


Joe