Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:43:15 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: James Raftery <james@kerna.ie>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named.root Message-ID: <20021121204315.707455D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:32:42 PST." <3DDD42EA.CB0884F4@softweyr.com>
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> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:32:42 -0800 > From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > James Raftery wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:07:35AM +0100, Buki wrote: > > > I upgraded recently my 4.7-RELEASE (because of the bind bug) and I > > > noticed that mergemaster tried to replace my new named.root. > > > As the change of named.root happened 20021105 and the patch is from > > > 20021113 I guess it should include the new named.root. > > > > The ISC patches only fixed the immiedate problem. > > > > I presume you updated using the RELENG_4_7 branch, as named.root was > > updated in RELENG_4 two weeks ago. named.root updates would have no > > reason to go in RELENG_4_7. It's for critical fixes only. > > Incorrect root server addresses isn't a critical fix? > > One of the root servers moved recently. Check the diff, it's a simple > change. An incorrect root server address is of no real significance and the file is only hints. As soon as a server finds a working address, it gets the REAL list from the root. This is not something to put in the RELENG_4_7 branch. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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