Re: rz.verisign-grs.com root zone ftp access

[Martin Hannigan <hannigan () gmail com>]

Hi Doug,

IIRC you can ftp to rs.internic.net (the IANA) and download zones to your
hearts content. At least until "transition", I'd think this one is
authoritative.

I don't exactly remember where you can pull it from, but I believe they
offer it in XML too.

[ Paging Joe Abley ]

Best,

-M<





On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Doug Barton <dougb () dougbarton us> wrote:

> The last time I asked them, F-root had a "we allow it because it's the
> right thing to do but we don't like it" policy. Given that ICANN operates
> an infrastructure purposely built for doing zone transfers, and given that
> they offer more zones than are on the roots, that's the way I recommend
> people go. YMMV.
>
> Doug
>
>
>
> On 05/20/2014 10:42 PM, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
>
> > F-root also allows you to axfr root-zone ( dig @f.root-servers.net .
> > axfr )
> >
> >
> > On May 20, 2014, at 10:32 PM, Doug Barton <dougb () dougbarton us> wrote:
> >
> >  Signed PGP part
> > > On 05/20/2014 02:21 PM, Brandon Applegate wrote:
> > > | Is anyone using this and having failed login for a few days now ?
> > > I?ve been mirroring the root zone(s) for years and I just started
> > > getting failures in my logs.  I emailed an address I found on the
> > > Verisign website but so far dead air.  If anyone knows of a more pointed
> > > email POC that would actually have clue about this that would be awesome.
> > >
> > > You can slave the root and more directly from ICANN:
> > >
> > > http://www.dns.icann.org/services/axfr/