<div dir="ltr">On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:03 PM, <a href="mailto:shmick@riseup.net">shmick@riseup.net</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shmick@riseup.net" target="_blank">shmick@riseup.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hello list,<br>
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concerning the following entities and the many other entites that<br>
provide dns services:<br>
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cesidian;<br>
unifiedroot;<br>
public-root;<br>
opennic;<br>
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1.<br>
what is considered better practice for use with unbound:<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Best practise is _not_ to use alternative roots.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
1.1<br>
merging the above individually provided named.cache entries into one<br>
file with the existing iana <a href="http://root-servers.net" target="_blank">root-servers.net</a> named.cache; or<br>
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1.2<br>
manually adding forward/stub zone entries into the .conf file instead to<br>
resolve other domains that would normally be un-resolvable?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>This.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
2.<br>
why ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Because they provide conflicting namespaces (root vs. alt_root, but also alt_root vs. alt_root), so you need to pick which one you will be using anyway.</div><div><br></div>
<div style>But I would like to repeat again. Don't use alt_roots, they don't play well (and never will) with unified DNS tree, and there's really no strong reason (no reason at all from my POV) for using them.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>O.</div></div>-- <br>Ondřej Surý <<a href="mailto:ondrej@sury.org" target="_blank">ondrej@sury.org</a>>
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