From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 14:49:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20933 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:49:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20821 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:48:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA28322; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:48:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 14:48:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Leif Neland cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named.boot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 May 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > > Well, it does, you just don't notice it nor does it actually write it > > down. If you watch named do its thing with tcpdump sometime you'll see it > > bothering the root servers when it's quiet and intuiting an updated list. > > You can always grab a new one for yourself tho, it's in internic somewhere > > :) > > > > Well, why doesn't it write it down then? It wouldn't be consistent if it changed it own files. Plus, it's a recipie for disaster -- if the cache seed file gets busted named won't load. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message