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Date:      Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:29:51 -0800
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Petri Helenius <petri@helenius.fi>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: named.root 
Message-ID:  <20080206212951.2FF9C4500E@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:26:29 PST." <47AA09E5.4030500@FreeBSD.org> 

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> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:26:29 -0800
> From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org
> 
> Petri Helenius wrote:
> > 
> > Any chance the recent root zone changes would make it to 7.0?
> 
> I will certainly prepare the change request and submit it to re@. 
> However please understand that this is a very low priority issue. The 
> first thing a resolving name server does when starting up is to use 
> the addresses in the root hints file to query a root server to update 
> its local cache of the root zone. It only needs to find ONE good 
> address in that file to accomplish this.
> 
> Doug
> 
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Doug,

This is both true and false because an IPv6 only DNS server (this may be
an imaginary entity) will not find any root servers without the
new file. I think it is probably not high priority, but is of MUCH
higher then the typical root list since it can have a real impact.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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