named.root

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:26:29 -0800
> From: Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-net at 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 at . 
> 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
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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.
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