> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:26:29 -0800 > From: Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > 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 > > -- > > This .signature sanitized for your protection > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
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. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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