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Re: What happened to root-server serial number?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Dambier)
Sat Sep 3 17:23:44 2005

Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:22:59 +0200
From: Peter Dambier <peter@peter-dambier.de>
Reply-To: peter@peter-dambier.de
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0509031023580.5272@jvc>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Peter Dambier wrote:
> 
> 
>>And I am glad they are updating again,
> 
> 
> The root zone (.) changes infrequently enough that a delay of 24h or less
> should not matter at all.  It's not like the zone is, for instance, COM. or
> CO.UK.
> 
> 
>>although
>>  2005-09-03 (246) 09:37:36 Paris
>>  2005-09-03 (246) 07:37:36 UTC
> 
> 
> I don't understand your worries here.  Why the paranoia?
> 

Because the FTPed root.zone had changes and updated the serialnumber.
The root-servers did not get it for two days.

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