[ppml] INADDR access should be axfr off all the INADDR DNS servers (WAS) A proposal to modify proposal 2003-9 (WHOIS and INADDR access)

[Bill Woodcock]

    > When a DNS server serves an AXFR request, it has to build what it is
    > sending on the fly, out of the copy that it has in its database (be that
    > database in-core or somwhere else).  All an FTP server needs to do is read
    > the data off of disk and spew it out a TCP socket.
    > This is why the various large TLDs do not provide access to their zones via
    > AXFR.

If I believed that, you'd have a bridge to sell me.

AXFR is handled by separate hosts than production queries in every major
TLD operation I know of.  So there's no performance impact between the
two.

                                -Bill