Mark.Andrews@isc.org writes: [ about RFC 1034's database-consistency requirement ] > The only way to meet this all the times and at all levels > of the DNS is to have the all the zones administered on a > single machine *and* to have a multizone transfer protocol. False; and, more importantly, irrelevant. RFC 1034 clearly prohibits your broken configurations. You admit this. It's now obvious to everybody that you're talking about real protocol changes, not ``clarifications.'' You want to change the protocol. Okay. Make an honest proposal in the DNSEXT WG, and we'll discuss it. Don't try to slip it past us as part of an ``AXFR clarification.'' ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago