Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:11:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Mark.Andrews@isc.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.7-R-p3: j.root-servers.net Message-ID: <20030128015300.G11777@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> In-Reply-To: <200301280929.h0S9TnuD025770@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200301280852.h0S8qnEN061773@drugs.dv.isc.org> <20030128011334.D11777@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> <200301280929.h0S9TnuD025770@apollo.backplane.com>
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I was not going to respond to this, but I really think I should. On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Matthew Dillon wrote: > This discussion has got me to thinking a bit. I go the root.zone route, > downloading it from the internic once a week. Errr.. it would actually be better to do something like 'dig @b.root-servers.net . axfr > file' than to download it from internic. Both because it's updated more than once a week, and because the version available for ftp is not always updated in a timely manner. > The root.zone is like an extended hints file: No it's not. The root zone file is just that. It's a real zone file for the root zone. A hints file has a very different syntax. This is an important distinction. > What I have just realized however is that my name server may not be > using the TLD entries when I load root.zone as a 'hints' file. It > may just be using the root entries. Now I'm not sure whether I am > reaping all the benefits from the file I've been downloading for the > last 10 years or not :-) I just tested this on bind 8.3.4, and the database has all of the contents of the root zone, listed as hints. So, at least with recent bind 8 you've been getting what you think you're getting... whether it's a good thing or not is another question. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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