From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 22 8:23:48 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 AA66137B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:23:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.netcologne.de (smtp.netcologne.de [194.8.194.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 774A443E4A for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:23:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmseck-lists@netcologne.de) Received: from mail.tmseck.homedns.org (xdsl-195-14-221-246.netcologne.de [195.14.221.246]) by smtp.netcologne.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B8686761 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 17:23:37 +0100 (MET) Received: by mail.tmseck.homedns.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6C3D1286C1; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 17:23:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 17:23:36 +0100 From: Thomas Seck To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named.root Message-ID: <20021122162336.GA480@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021121204315.707455D04@ptavv.es.net> <3DDDD74D.F4BC206F@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DDDD74D.F4BC206F@softweyr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: private site in Germany X-PGP-KeyID: DF46EE05 X-PGP-Fingerprint: A38F AE66 6B11 6EB9 5D1A B67D 2444 2FE1 DF46 EE05 X-Attribution: tms 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 * Wes Peters (wes@softweyr.com): > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > > From: Wes Peters > > > > > > 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. > > Obviously and thankfully our DNS maintainer feels otherwise. No one is kept from modifying his or her local copy of FreeBSD to suit his resp. her needs. I do not think that Network Solutions will assign 198.41.0.10 tomorrow to $evil_person for $most_evil_purpose but YMMV. BTW: The folks running other DNS resolver packages from ports are probably more "at risk" here until the respective maintainers issue patches or updated packages which deal with this recent change to the root zone. --Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message