From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 28 1:29:51 2003 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 41C3337B401; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:29:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CFF43FBF; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:29:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0S9Tn0i025771; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:29:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0S9TnuD025770; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:29:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:29:49 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200301280929.h0S9TnuD025770@apollo.backplane.com> To: Doug Barton Cc: Mark.Andrews@isc.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.7-R-p3: j.root-servers.net References: <200301280852.h0S8qnEN061773@drugs.dv.isc.org> <20030128011334.D11777@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> 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 This discussion has got me to thinking a bit. I go the root.zone route, downloading it from the internic once a week. The root.zone is like an extended hints file: It not only has the name servers for ".", it has the name servers for the TLDs (like .COM, .AU, etc) as well. These change regularly. The zone file is around 50K. What I have just realized however is that my name server may not be using the TLD entries when I load root.zone as a 'hints' file. It may just be using the root entries. Now I'm not sure whether I am reaping all the benefits from the file I've been downloading for the last 10 years or not :-) In anycase, regardless of how the TLDs are handled as a hints file, I strongly recommend the scripted download methodlogy over any other. I've been using it a long time and have never had a problem. I think it is somewhat more robust then depending on a secondary entry. -Matt :On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 Mark.Andrews@isc.org wrote: : :> :> The root zone changes about every two weeks (or was that :> twice weekly?). Anyway it is reasonably frequently but not :> daily. By changes I mean changes other than serial number. :> The serial number changes twice daily. : :Sorry, I meant the hints file had not changed for a long time before J was :changed recently. I realized that I had the hints file and the root zone :confused in my post, but I didn't change it everywhere I needed to. : :Sorry for the confusion, : :Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message