On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:24:40PM +0200, Daniel Concepcion wrote:
Yes Neil,
It should be interesting to know the 'official' requirements/recommendations for ccTLD's hosting For example: diversity geographical, network needs, security needs, building environment., etc
I've only been able to find a best practise guideline that specifies that the nameserver be online 24/7. (http://www.wwtld.org/ongoing/bestpractices/BestPractice_10Mar2001.html) I found it interesting to note that a significant number of cctld servers ignore the suggestions for root-servers in BCP40/RFC2870... "Other major zone server operators (gTLDs, ccTLDs, major zones) may also find it useful." and leave recursion enabled on the ccTLD servers (2.5) - the old ns.eu.net was one of these, I believe RIPE have done the right thing with the new one. What is even more disturbing is that there is a non-zero number of ccTLD servers that are still cache poisonable.