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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 08:48:08 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        leifn@internet.dk (Leif Neland)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: named.boot
Message-ID:  <199805051348.IAA13478@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505015507.4152A-100000@darla.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> from Leif Neland at "May 5, 98 01:56:25 am"

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In a previous message, Leif Neland said:
> Just wondering: Is there any reason why named doesn't fetch a new
> named.root with the root nameservers regularly?

It was probably designed that way. Not all named's are going to want
to get the root servers. Some DNS machines don't have access to the
outside world. Some internal organizations run their own root servers
and proxy to the world. 

And the root.cache file doesn't really change that often.


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