Experiments on production DNS (was: Re: NS.EU.NET running NSD)

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:18:11AM +0100,
 Berislav Todorovic <beri at eurorings.net> wrote 
 a message of 56 lines which said:

> However, some ccTLD's are still using it 

BTW, they are not always at fault. As you know, for every change in
the root zone (even to change a name server), ICANN requires that you
sign a contract that most ccTLDs refuse (among other things, it
requires the right for ICANN to AXFR your entire zone file, for
ridiculous reasons, see
<URL:http://www.centr.org/docs/statements/ICANN-Zone-Access-Comments.html>).

Albanians, for instance, required the change many months ago but ICANN
is still holding the change because they do not want to sign. French
had a similar problem.

> Your argument might be that "they had enough time to migrate". True.

Yes, they had, but ICANN/DoC bureaucrats hold them hostages.

> You are free to remove them completely from ns.EU.net, but as long
> as ns.EU.net is a live box and serves as a DNS - it is a part of
> production environment.

IMHO, it is better to shut it down completely. The DNS behaves fine
when a server is down, not when it is running and giving possibly
wrong information (as ns.eu.net hosted by RIPE already did for former
domains of EUnet-France).

Otherwise, nsd is a very fine software :-) and I'm glad to see it used
in production. Why not trying it on NS.RIPE.NET?