From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 06:48:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA17448 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 06:48:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA17422 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 06:48:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA13478; Tue, 5 May 1998 08:48:08 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199805051348.IAA13478@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: named.boot To: leifn@internet.dk (Leif Neland) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 08:48:08 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Leif Neland at "May 5, 98 01:56:25 am" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Leif Neland said: > Just wondering: Is there any reason why named doesn't fetch a new > named.root with the root nameservers regularly? It was probably designed that way. Not all named's are going to want to get the root servers. Some DNS machines don't have access to the outside world. Some internal organizations run their own root servers and proxy to the world. And the root.cache file doesn't really change that often. -- People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns. Dan Quayle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message