On 2012-12-18, at 11:15, David Conrad <d...@virtualized.org> wrote: > WRT the root _hints_ change, setting up a cron job to pull, verify, and > install the root hints file periodically (once a month should probably be > sufficient) would probably be a good idea.
This change appears to have been completed, as of root zone serial 2013010300: [krill:~]% host d.root-servers.net d.root-servers.net has address 199.7.91.13 d.root-servers.net has IPv6 address 2001:500:2d::d [krill:~]% [krill:~]% curl -s ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root | fgrep D.ROOT . 3600000 NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 199.7.91.13 D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 AAAA 2001:500:2D::D [krill:~]% The authoritative location of the root hints file is <ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root> and those who feel like being tidy DNS admins could pull a fresh copy from there so that the next time their nameserver is restarted it will prime optimally. As discussed at some length before, those who prefer to be more hands-off about this will very likely see no negative impact from their laziness. Joe
