On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 06:08:55PM +1300, Don Stokes wrote:
Joe writes: [Whois]
I think this needs a little more explaining. I can see that registrars would have ample reason to make more than 50 requests from a single source in quite a short period of time.
50 responses per query -- it's just to stop people going 'whois *' and getting swamped by the entire database, whether or not that was their intent...
So, it might make sense to re-word the policy to say that no more than 50 records will result from a single query? I think the way it's worded right now is confusing. Maybe it's just me :)
[Zone transfers]
One thing isn't mentioned, though -- is the policy to allow zone transfers from _all_ authoritative servers, or just the master?
There's still some discussion to be had about how secondaries are to be implemented. I think that the secondary implementation would be much cleaner if the secondary operators don't have to worry about who is allowed to perform zone transfers this week.
That sounds like a good way to start out -- deny transfers from all slave servers, and permit them to reasonable requestors from the master.
Will this policy be implemented by denying zone transfer requests from addresses that haven't explicitly been allowed? If so, who
That's the usual way of restricting zone transfers. 8-)
Pah :) The policy doesn't actually mention restricting zone transfers at all. It only talks about allowing them :)
will administer the list of devices permitted to perform zone transfers?
I imagine, for purely practical reasons, the *administration* would be through Domainz. The *responsibility* would remain with ISOCNZ.
And, pending Domainz' revised infrastructure and operational arrangements, right now this would actually be done by UoW rather than Domainz? Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog