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Re: root zone file
- From: Paul Vixie
- Date: Sun Apr 28 11:11:11 2002
> 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.
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