From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 23 17:48:52 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 C7FA037B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:48:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffoon.automagic.org (buffoon.automagic.org [208.185.30.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26EEF43E91 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:48:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jabley@buffoon.automagic.org) Received: (qmail 91638 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Nov 2002 01:48:50 -0000 Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:48:50 -0500 From: Joe Abley To: Wes Peters Cc: Tim Wilde , Thomas Seck , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named.root Message-ID: <20021124014850.GF90840@buffoon.automagic.org> References: <20021121204315.707455D04@ptavv.es.net> <3DDDD74D.F4BC206F@softweyr.com> <20021122162336.GA480@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <3DE02EFC.AB671666@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DE02EFC.AB671666@softweyr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:44:28PM -0800, Wes Peters wrote: > They are, of course, assuming they will be around to insure that for at > least 5 years. I'm not sure I agree with that assumption either. Both the old and the new addresses for J are located within swamp /24s which can be readily advertised from one or more places anywhere on the network without much risk of being filtered. Whether or not one of those /24s happens to still be operated by Verisign in five years time is not all that important. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message