From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 6 21:29:56 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 95ED216A41A; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:29:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=63455f5d3e5ea1f4218cbc02546b3f10163d38ae=603=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postoffice4.tagpma.org [IPv6:2001:400:6000:1::66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72FDD13C461; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:29:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=63455f5d3e5ea1f4218cbc02546b3f10163d38ae=603=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal4.es.net (Postal Node 4) with ESMTP (SSL) id MXJ82152; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:29:52 -0800 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 2FF9C4500E; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:29:51 -0800 (PST) To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:26:29 PST." <47AA09E5.4030500@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1202333391_51442P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:29:51 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20080206212951.2FF9C4500E@ptavv.es.net> X-Sender-IP: 198.128.4.29 X-Sender-Domain: es.net X-Recipent: ; ; ; X-Sender: X-To_Name: Doug Barton X-To_Domain: freebsd.org X-To: Doug Barton X-To_Email: dougb@FreeBSD.org X-To_Alias: dougb Cc: Petri Helenius , 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 21:29:56 -0000 --==_Exmh_1202333391_51442P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:26:29 -0800 > From: Doug Barton > 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 > > -- > > This .signature sanitized for your protection > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > 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. -- 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 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1202333391_51442P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHqibPkn3rs5h7N1ERAo0DAJwIztwmUR2FRN3J0W4ZRJPzcjeEbgCgiyf1 wNG4kHyzgYr4zIfJ6UxaSK0= =5Jah -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1202333391_51442P--