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Re: root zone file
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: 28 Apr 2002 08:08:46 -0700
Replacing the hints file with the top level zone speeds up lookups,
nope. there are less than 300 top level delegations, and a proper caching implementation will only hit the roots once a week per tld.
and removes the burden from the root servers:
wrong again. (consider the impact of all those axfr's, from millions of name servers, whenever the root zone changes.) but what it _will_ do is add one more config file which contains a dotted quad that might have to change some day. every few years a root name server is added or moved. everything is fine as long as there is _some_ overlap between your hints and the truth. but it's a whole lot easier to automate the change tracking for a hints file than for something that tries to make every one of millions of name servers into stealth slaves of the "." zone. i've set the reply-to to namedroppers, since this is really not a north american operations issue.
Current thread:
- Re: root zone file, (continued)
- Re: root zone file David Ulevitch (Apr 26)
- Re: root zone file William Warren (Apr 26)
- Re: root zone file Bruce Robertson (Apr 26)
- Re: root zone file William Warren (Apr 26)
- Re: root zone file David Ulevitch (Apr 26)
- RE: root zone file Matt Zito (Apr 26)
- RE: root zone file Curtis Maurand (Apr 29)
- RE: root zone file Matt Zito (Apr 26)
- Re: root zone file Simon Higgs (Apr 26)
- RE: root zone file Simon Higgs (Apr 26)
- Re: root zone file John R. Levine (Apr 26)
- Re: root zone file Paul Vixie (Apr 28)