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[Jamyn Shanley <jshanley AT gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Brian Koontz <brian AT opennicproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 08:33:43PM -0500, Jamyn Shanley wrote:
>> I've noticed the test page will fail an IP unless the root zone points
>> to OpenNIC.
>>
>> Here's one example (a play VM):
>> http://www.opennicproject.org/t2log/t2.php?ip_addr=108.174.61.249&mode=0
>>
>> This machine is serving up all of of ICANN, OpenNIC, Cesidian, Dot-42,
>> and soon - .bit as well (I'm currently writing a quick zone parser in
>> perl for tinydns because the php one expects Bind and is a bit messy).
>> Perhaps it would be possible to modify the tests so if all other
>> checks pass (except root zone), the server passes? IE - if all
>> responses are valid, despite having an ICANN root zone, the server
>> should pass?
>
> One reason is that in the event of a collider between ICANN and
> OpenNIC, pointing the root zone at ICANN will autonomously bypass our
> TLD.

Understandable, but I'm explicitly configuring unbound so that ICANN
TLDs take precedence.

> We simply ask that servers who want to be listed as an OpenNIC T2
> server point to ns0.  Other servers are certainly welcome to serve up
> part or all of the OpenNIC namespace, and there are several servers I
> know of that do just that.

That makes sense. In many cases it's faster to default to looking up
non-OpenNIC tlds with normal resolution, which is why I configured it
that way.