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Subject: RE: New root zone hint file published
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>If you want that warm, fuzzy, secure feeling, you can also verify the
>signature on the (perfectly valid) file Jez posted.

dig @198.41.0.4 . ns > /path/to/db.cache

... is sufficient.

If you can't trust authoritative answers from the delegated NS, esp for the 
root zone, then you can't trust anything in the namespace.

No need to futz around with downloading files and authenticating them.

Len


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