[84087] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What happened to root-server serial number?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Sep 3 19:35:01 2005
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 03 Sep 2005 23:32:04 +0000
In-Reply-To: <431A1433.2020909@peter-dambier.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
some of the reasons a lot of us pay so little attention to most alternative
root nameserver systems are: they often don't do their homework, and they
often don't pay attention to the details.
diffing text files as a way to check for zone changes would be one way to
commit both errors at the same time.
running a so-called root name server with recursion enabled would be another.
pfaa.
re:
peter@peter-dambier.de (Peter Dambier) writes:
> 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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