Hostmastering Working Group:OpenNIC Wiki

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This is an old revision of HostmasteringWG made by JulianDemarchi on 2009-08-20 19:34:19.

Hostmastering Working Group

Coordinators
JulianDemarchi
Members
All Tier1 Master Pool (Tier 1) maintainers

DNS Services

Tier1 Master Pool (form erly Tier-1) DNS Hosts

Tier1Status View Tier1 Status
ZoneStatus View Zone Status

Tier2 Public Access (formerly Tier-2) DNS Hosts
ProxyServers Proxy Servers
SponsoredTLDs Sponsored TLDs
T1ServerList T1 Server List

The Hostmastering Working Group administers the DNS services and manages the zone files for the RootZone root and GlueZone opennic.glue zones, in accordance with its HostmasteringPolicies Policies

Specifications

DnsSpec DNS Architecture and Configuration

Task List

Deliberate [potential] uses of GlueZone the Glue Zone tree
Implement email lists for each of the t1 and published t2 servers, fed by Nagios.
Provide several solutions for voting, final choice to be decided by members. - votingsolutions Voting Discussions
Present some OpenNIC guide lines covering

Running an OpenNIC related project - Guide finished, view at AnOpenNICProject Running an OpenNIC Related Project
Running a Tier 1 OpenNIC DNS server - Draft can be found RunningT2 here
Using the OpenNIC support center

Deliberations

PHP form that mails new T2 servers to the discuss mailing list for evaluation, if the T2 is setup correctly and a member of the mailing list verifies this, the T2 submission will then be forwarded to the announce mailing list for public notification. (Maybe a WIKI page can be setup for each server verifying the original results of the tests)

Now setup.

The use of the word 'Tier' in naming groups of DNS Hosts is proving inconvenient, even counter-productive, to promoting an understanding of the different functions of these servers. We're looking for, thinking about, and trying out, new lables to replace these, starting with

tier-0 replaced with Aggregate Master, because that's exactly what it is, the DNS "master" for the AggregateRoot;
tier-1 replaced with Master Pool, because that's exactly what it is, a pool of "masters" for the TLDs/zones sponsored by OpenNIC;
tier-2 replaced with Public Access, because that's exactly what they are, public access servers.

We welcome your suggestions and feedback.

I would suggest keeping the tier designations for legacy reasons...many have been involved with OpenNIC over the years, and we would hope they would return to the fold without having to immediately learn a completely new set of nameserver naming rules. The new names are fine, but let's not rush to completely erase the "former" OpenNIC culture! --Brian

What is the aversion from using the usual names to which the public is used to hearing? I don't see a problem with calling Tier 1 or Master Pool servers by their common name, root servers, and refer to Tier 2 servers as public recursive servers. --AaronJAngel

Resources

CategoryHostmastering

OpenNIC Wiki : HostmasteringWG

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