Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:29:51 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Petri Helenius <petri@helenius.fi>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: named.root Message-ID: <20080206212951.2FF9C4500E@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:26:29 PST." <47AA09E5.4030500@FreeBSD.org>
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--==_Exmh_1202333391_51442P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:26:29 -0800 > From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org > > Petri Helenius wrote: > > > > Any chance the recent root zone changes would make it to 7.0? > > I will certainly prepare the change request and submit it to re@. > However please understand that this is a very low priority issue. The > first thing a resolving name server does when starting up is to use > the addresses in the root hints file to query a root server to update > its local cache of the root zone. It only needs to find ONE good > address in that file to accomplish this. > > Doug > > -- > > This .signature sanitized for your protection > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Doug, This is both true and false because an IPv6 only DNS server (this may be an imaginary entity) will not find any root servers without the new file. I think it is probably not high priority, but is of MUCH higher then the typical root list since it can have a real impact. -- 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 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1202333391_51442P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHqibPkn3rs5h7N1ERAo0DAJwIztwmUR2FRN3J0W4ZRJPzcjeEbgCgiyf1 wNG4kHyzgYr4zIfJ6UxaSK0= =5Jah -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1202333391_51442P--
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