Mark.Andrews@isc.org writes: > Semi-synchronized changes have always been part of the DNS. If there's an honest proposal to modify the DNS specifications to allow semi-synchronized changes (once again: parent zone being changed after all the child servers have changed), perhaps the discussion will reveal that those changes work with BIND 4, BIND 8, djbdns, etc.; that those changes are useful; and that nobody objects to this modification. On the other hand, if there's an honest proposal to modify the DNS specifications to allow _unsychronized_ changes (such as your asinine configuration examples), the discussion will reveal that those changes do _not_ work with the majority of DNS servers on the Internet, that those changes are _not_ useful, and that the modification is a bad idea. What we have here is much worse: a thoroughly dishonest attempt to slip the latter modification past us as part of an ``AXFR clarification.'' Anyone with a shred of integrity should be opposing this fraud. ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago