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Date:      Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:08:37 +0100
From:      Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.7-R-p3: j.root-servers.net
Message-ID:  <20030126130837.GA399@gicco.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030125222529.582505D04@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20030125221725.GA416@gicco.homeip.net> <20030125222529.582505D04@ptavv.es.net>

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  On Jan 25 at 14:25, Kevin Oberman spoke:

> > Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 23:17:25 +0100
> > From: Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be>
> > Are such changes not reflected when sticking with RELENG_4_7?
> 
> No. Only security and critical operational patches go into the
> RELENG_4_7 branch. This was heavily discussed at the time, but there

Ok.

> are no security or operational issues with this. (This is not
> intuitively true, but is clear if you understand the nuts and bolts
> of named and DNS caching.)
> 
> If you want to get a new version at any time, just issue the command:
> dig ns . @b.root-servers.net. > /etc/named/named.root (or wherever
>                                          your named.conf tells it to look).

Ok. I'll create a job as I have to update the instance in
/var/named/namedb anyway.

-Hanspeter

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