FreeBSD violates RFC2870 [was: Re: Problems with named default configuration in 6-STABLE]

[Heiko Wundram (Beenic)]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:45:04 Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:47:50PM +0200, Volker wrote:
> > As I think having a default to hint root zone is better, I'll file a
> > PR about that.
>
> Which leads me to ask:
>
> Why hasn't anyone recommended using stub zones for this?  It seems the
> goal is to cache NS records from the rootservers, and stub zones don't
> utilise AXFR/IXFR.

Basically, this is not similar. If you are a slave for the root zone, you not 
only cache the root nameservers itself, but also the nameservers used for the 
resolution of first-level subdomains. If you are a stub, you basically get 
nothing besides a hint-zone; otherwise you'd have to configure a stub-zone 
for every TLD that's out there (and configured in the roots) with the 
respective info to actually achieve (permanent) caching of TLD-NS-records in 
the form of a zone-file.

-- 
Heiko Wundram
Product & Application Development
-------------------------------------
Office Germany - EXPO PARK HANNOVER
 
Beenic Networks GmbH
Mailänder Straße 2
30539 Hannover
 
Fon        +49 511 / 590 935 - 15
Fax        +49 511 / 590 935 - 29
Mail       wundram at beenic.net


Beenic Networks GmbH
-------------------------------------
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hannover
Geschäftsführer: Jorge Delgado
Registernummer: HRB 61869
Registergericht: Amtsgericht Hannover