[dns-operations] FAQ - Where is our pointer of all the root/TLD addresses to build prefix and dampening filters?

Matthew Pounsett matt.pounsett at cira.ca
Wed Feb 27 16:29:37 UTC 2008


On 27-Feb-2008, at 09:21 , Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:52:44PM -0800,
> Barry Greene (bgreene) <bgreene at cisco.com> wrote
> a message of 29 lines which said:
>
>> Do we have any updated list, links, pages that have all the address
>> space we never want to dampen and/or filter?
>
> I'm quite skeptical. Such lists require a lot of manual work and still
> tend to rot with time and to be always incomplete or out-of-date.

I can think of at least one automated way to keep an up-to-date list  
that's far more complete than the one linked to ... AXFR the root  
zone, and build a list from its glue and your local up-to-date hints  
file.


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