From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 6 19:26:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD01916A418 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:26:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx24.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 272C413C469 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:26:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 26592 invoked by uid 399); 6 Feb 2008 19:26:34 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.8?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTP; 6 Feb 2008 19:26:34 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <47AA09E5.4030500@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:26:29 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Petri Helenius References: <47A89299.30404@helenius.fi> In-Reply-To: <47A89299.30404@helenius.fi> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: named.root X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:26:36 -0000 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 -- This .signature sanitized for your protection