Re: What happened to root-server serial number?

[Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>]

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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