[158883] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advisory =?windows-1252?Q?=97_D-root_is_changing_its?=
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Fri Dec 14 14:05:21 2012
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:03:42 -0500
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <57D7B905-F0CD-4A09-8F67-626CD8AA8E13@hopcount.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12-12-14 12:13, Joe Abley wrote:
> In summary, theory (and practice) tells us that:
>
> 1. You should update your hints file from time to time, and
> 2. If you don't, chances are overwhelmingly good that it will make no difference, and everything will work as normal.
But this is important to those who write DNS server software to ensure
they embed the most up to date version of the root servers in their
binaries.
There are also a number of much older systems which no longer get
software updates (such as VAX-VMS) so it is good practice to manually
maintain the root.hints files so that over time, you don't accumulate
more than a couple of disused root server IP addresses.
