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by toast0 20 days ago
> Just to have a compressed static file that contains all the routes one could download from time to time I think would be interesting to analyze.

When I needed this for some work stuff, it was pretty easy to find table dumps and work with them? I don't remember where it was, but I'm sure you can find some. After an acquisition, we had our own ASN and I was able to get table dumps from our own infrastructure.

> Same goes for the anycast root DNS servers. To have a full dump from them could be interesting. Not to be confused with the root.zone [1] I mean the whole kit and caboodle.

What do you think the root servers have that's not in the root.zone? I think you can AXFR from the root servers, too, but it should be the same thing as from the https site.
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Bender 20 days ago
What do you think the root servers have that's not in the root.zone?

Every glue record for every domain name. The glue is the valuable goo. Without the goo everyone goes back to /etc/hosts which I am not opposed to.

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toast0 20 days ago
The root servers don't have the glue record for every domain name though. All they have is the glue records for the TLDs. (which is in the zone file you linked)
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Bender 20 days ago
Every time I stand up new name servers I have to add the glue records into the root servers or the name servers do not exist. In fairness to me I keep forgetting the trend is to shove everything into big centralized DNS servers as it is something I would never do at least not as a primary.
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toast0 20 days ago
Afaik, those glue records are held at your TLD's registry and served by the tld nameservers, not the root servers.

It might be nice to get a zone transfer for every tld, but that's not possible for the public. (I understand there's some way to get many of them, but $$$$)

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Bender 20 days ago
I run my own name servers. I never use the name servers of a registry. I can see the glue records of my name servers in the root servers. In fact the reason I left NetworkSolutions (web.com) was that their interface to update the root servers broke and there was nobody left that knew how to fix it. I'm sure they must have fixed it by now but I was being impatient only waiting 3 weeks.

I should add that I have been adding name servers to the root servers since 1998. I've just never managed one of the root servers and I guess nobody on HN has either.

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toast0 20 days ago
I'm pretty sure you're confused.

If you query your domain at the root servers, they will refer you to the tld servers, run by your registry.

Then when you query your domain at the tld servers, they return your selected nameservers along with their addresses, if in their bailiwick.

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