From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 28 10:57:24 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 9117037B401; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:57:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3406A43F43; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:57:23 -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 h0SIvM0i028023; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:57:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0SIvMtb028022; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:57:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:57:22 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200301281857.h0SIvMtb028022@apollo.backplane.com> To: Doug Barton Cc: Mark.Andrews@isc.org, Mark_Andrews@isc.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.7-R-p3: j.root-servers.net References: <200301281042.h0SAgcEN062058@drugs.dv.isc.org> <20030128024928.M11777@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 : :That's good to know... I was kind of surprised that it was in the db at :all. : :> BIND 9 will complain if there is additional data in the hints. : :Even better. :) : :-- : Ok, I'm thinking then that it's better to load it as a real zone file. Why do it that way instead of allowing updates via a root server? Because in the last ten years I've had a number of problems with individual root servers returning bad data. It doesn't happen very often, but it does happen. I've have never had problems with the downloaded root.zone, and if I ever do at least I'll know that it's the likely cause since I only download it once a week on sunday, and I can review the current and prior zone files without having to dump named. From my point of view as an administrator that's the more secure approach. In anycase, there are obviously many ways to keep an up-to-date root zone, my methodology is only one out of that list. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message