Re: Root hints updates

2012-09-06 Thread Lyle Giese
On 09/06/12 07:06, Timothe Litt wrote: In doing some system administration, I realized that I have a tool that might be generally useful - ISC is welcome to add it to contribs. Hopefully the attachment will make it through the mailing list server. This is a script to automagically update the ro

RE: Root hints updates

2012-09-06 Thread Tony Finch
Timothe Litt wrote: > > Until someone authoritative tells me that BIND manages the hints file on its > own, I'm taking the conservative route and letting my tool run > BTW, I do have systems that come on-line every 5 years or so. Automation is > good :-) Well, I'm not authoritative, but I do

RE: Root hints updates

2012-09-06 Thread Timothe Litt
yer [mailto:bortzme...@nic.fr] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 09:08 To: Timothe Litt Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Root hints updates On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 08:06:45AM -0400, Timothe Litt wrote a message of 466 lines which said: > This is a script to automagically update the root

Re: Root hints updates

2012-09-06 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 08:06:45AM -0400, Timothe Litt wrote a message of 466 lines which said: > This is a script to automagically update the root hints file. Since the first thing BIND does at startup is to check the root NS set, and since DNSSEC guarantees that it is genuine, is there sti