From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 13:53:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05479 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:53:55 -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 NAA05324 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:53:19 -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 NAA25659; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:53:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 13:53:14 -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 Tue, 5 May 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > Just wondering: Is there any reason why named doesn't fetch a new > named.root with the root nameservers regularly? 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 :) 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