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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