[dns-wg] rev delegation robot and selection of NS to pull zone from

the root ops folks have used that term for nearly a decade...
its much cleaner/nicer than the baggage of other, more highly 
charged words.  

--bill

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:48:25AM -0800, Barbara Roseman wrote:
> A new term, without the baggage of "hidden" or "stealth" is "distribution master".
> 
> -Barb
> 
> 
> On 11/20/08 10:44 AM, "Mohsen Souissi" <mohsen.souissi at nic.fr> wrote:
> 
> Wilfried,
> 
> Some call it "hidden master", others call it "hidden primary" and
> others call it "stealth master"...
> 
> This URL may help and I'm sure there is much more thorough source of
> documentation: http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/servers/
> 
> (just look up "hidden master" in the web page...)
> 
> You may also visit this page:
> https://www.isc.org/software/bind/documentation/arm95
> 
> I think as for the XFR config, amha, the slave run by NCC should be
> configured to feed from the other NS listed (and run on-site).
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Mohsen.
> 
>  On 20 Nov, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
>  | Another question regarding v6 reverse delegation, but possibly also
>  | applicable to v4 reverse...
>  |
>  | One of our customers has a somewhat complex DNS setup which makes us
>  | face the situation that in the SOA record the name of the NS where
>  | the zone originates is not in the set of responses to NS queries.
>  |
>  | While this is not the common case, I presume, it seems to NOT be "illegal".
>  |
>  | The domain has to on-site name servers and is configured to have a slave
>  | at the NCC.
>  |
>  | For this zone we received an alert that the ZXFR has failed from the
>  | machine with the name given in the SOA. That box will never be serving
>  | external zone transfer requests.
>  |
>  | So - this may just be a glitch in the alerting script, but I am still
>  | left with the question: how does the robot at the NCC's end determine
>  | the "appropriate" host to try zone transfers from?
>  |
>  | Any recommendations?
>  |
>  | Thanks,
>  | Wilfreid.
> 
>