[102320] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Repotting report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Feb 4 17:27:09 2008
Cc: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <7A560F8B-107F-4C44-AB65-DE7CBCFB8867@muada.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:20:20 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 4-Feb-2008, at 16:05, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> And the new named.root has arrived:
>
> ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root
I seem to think it has become fairly widespread practice for people to
refresh their named.root files (or whatever they decide to call it)
using something like this:
$ dig . NS >named.root
This worked before today. From today, it still works (in the sense
that it will still result in a named.root file which is sufficiently
complete in most situations for a nameserver to be able to send a
priming query) but it won't contain a complete set of glue.
So, if you're in the habit of doing
dig . NS >named.root
you would ideally change that habit to something like
curl -O ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root
instead. (Incidentally, for me, rs.internic.net is giving "530 Login
incorrect" after PASS when logging in using "ftp" or "anonymous").
Joe
