Mark Andrews <[email protected]> writes:

> Whether IXFR is useful or not depends on how the zone is
> signed. Incrementally as records are updated or if the zone is fully
> resigned on every update. The server for the zone can determine if the
> IXFR delta response would be bigger than the AXFR style response
> a. Servers already switch style of response based on expected
> transmission size.

True.  And frequent small signing events of small record sets, like some
automated DNS signers do, means that lots of IXFRs may indeed be
helpful.

That's not the case for the root though.

-- 
Wes Hardaker
Google

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