Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 10:42:02 -0400 From: Scott Stansbury <scotts@franklin.nysernet.ORG> Message-ID: <199609091442.KAA20704@franklin.nysernet.ORG> Unfortunately, this doesn't work now. Our name servers get tens of thousands of hits a day for a former root, c.nyser.net, a machine that hasn't existed for quite some time. There's absolutely nothing you can do about those, they're the result of old software with old configurations. Changing at the end nodes is the only thing that will ever fix that problem. Certainly changing the root nameserver addresses isn't going to make any difference (unless you can somehow guarantee that none of the old root addresses has any kind of nameserver sutting at it, that at least would motivate the old end sites a little). Given that the end nodes have to be updated to make things better, it seems that the best solution is to motivate them to upgrade the software (it isn't exactly a difficult task) so that the problem of changing root addresses (and lots of others) mostly goes away. Magic stable root addresses isn't likely to be much of a long term help, regardless of how well they can be propogated, or what kind of message it sends wrt address & routing table slot conservation. If anything, taht is likely to just encourage people to keep using nameserver code that should have been retired years ago. kre