What does delegation mean?

[Ken Smith]

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I started a private conversation with one of you so I could learn
more about the current structure of things and learned quite a bit
that way.  For those of you who are running delegated zones:

	- Do you provide www, cvsup, and ftp servers that all of the
	  folks down inside of your zone use?  For example if your
	  zone was foo.freebsd.org does any system inside of your
	  zone connect to a ftp-master* site that is outside of your
	  zone?

	- If you are providing these Tier-1 servers which then feed
	  Tier-2 servers, do the Tier-2 servers wind up having the
	  releases in the "staged" form (permissions set properly so
	  it's not available to anonymous FTP users) before Release
	  Day?

If the answer to the first question is that virtually all delegated
zones work that way then as you have been trying to point out to me
life is much simpler than I had thought it was before, I didn't realize
the delegated zones where *that* self-sufficient.

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						Ken Smith
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