From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 21 12:43:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C7337B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:43:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E5C43E4A for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:43:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:43:16 -0800 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 707455D04; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:43:15 -0800 (PST) To: Wes Peters Cc: James Raftery , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named.root In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:32:42 PST." <3DDD42EA.CB0884F4@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:43:15 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20021121204315.707455D04@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:32:42 -0800 > From: Wes Peters > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > James Raftery wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:07:35AM +0100, Buki wrote: > > > I upgraded recently my 4.7-RELEASE (because of the bind bug) and I > > > noticed that mergemaster tried to replace my new named.root. > > > As the change of named.root happened 20021105 and the patch is from > > > 20021113 I guess it should include the new named.root. > > > > The ISC patches only fixed the immiedate problem. > > > > I presume you updated using the RELENG_4_7 branch, as named.root was > > updated in RELENG_4 two weeks ago. named.root updates would have no > > reason to go in RELENG_4_7. It's for critical fixes only. > > Incorrect root server addresses isn't a critical fix? > > One of the root servers moved recently. Check the diff, it's a simple > change. An incorrect root server address is of no real significance and the file is only hints. As soon as a server finds a working address, it gets the REAL list from the root. This is not something to put in the RELENG_4_7 branch. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message