Re: publish round robin A record for root-servers.net?

[Mathias Koerber <mathias@staff.singnet.com.sg>]

On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Mark Andrews wrote:

| Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 19:32:09 +1000
| From: Mark Andrews <Mark.Andrews@dms.csiro.au>
| To: Mathias Koerber <mathias@staff.singnet.com.sg>
| Cc: namedroppers@internic.net, action@internic.net
| Subject: Re: publish round robin A record for root-servers.net? 
| 
| 
| > Would it be helpful to publish several A records (name all those for the
| > root-servers) for root-servers.net itself?
| > 
| > This way things like 
| > 	dig@root-servers.net 
| > are possible, and one gets a random one..
| > 
| > comments?
| > 
| 	The only advantage would be that you would be able to fit one
| 	extra root server into a 512 byte message. Each additional
| 	record would take 2+2+2+4+2+4 (16) bytes as apposed to
| 	4+2+2+4+2+4 (18) bytes. There are a number of disadvantages,
| 	bind 4.9.3 anti-aliases nameservers so if there
| 	was a bad address you would reject all the addresses.
| 	It is a lot harder to diagnose problems. You would be unable to
| 	stagger the ttl of the different root servers.

	Oh, but you could keep the individual root-server records, and only
have an additional record for root-servers.net itself. This would
likely go in the named.root file anyway, so updates would not be too
critical.

	I see your point on the antialising though.

	Oh well, I think I just to too lazy deciding which root-server
	I query to see whether a new domain was updated and thought the
	system could take care of that :-)

	cheers
| 
| 	Mark
| 
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