Theo Van Dinter wrote: >> queries for a particular domain to a the zone machine. >> > If so, it would be really easy to add a forwarding zone to forward all > > Yes. Of course it's possible to forward the requests to the zone machine. > > But that's not really a solution. The ASF folks already have problems > with us using so many resources, they're not going to be happy with > <the_world> using the machine for DNS. I don't think the intent was to allow <the_world>, merely <the_committers>.
Going back to the top of the thread: "Should we look at getting zone transfers from the various providers and hosting a copy on the zone that committers could use? " > From a sysadmin perspective, > that's horrible. I also don't think all these places would let us allow > open access to their zone data. I don't think that was the intent, and I agree they wouldn't allow that.