31 Oct
2025
31 Oct
'25
11:38 a.m.
I'm just trying to map out all of the potential failure scenarios, and convince myself that this is "just as safe as before"...
Just one data point - I wrote a paper about the local root configuration that I presented at IMC in 2004. https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2004/papers/p15-malone.pdf The results seemd to show a reasonable improvement in weird queries leaking out of my name server, so I've been using the local root configuration ever since, and I don't remember it causing any trouble in the last ~20 years. (Plus, the configuration is now easier.) I've also been doing the same thing for "arpa", "in-addr.arpa", and "ip6.arpa" for a shorter period of time, with no problems. David.