] At 05:10 PM 8/11/2002 -0800, you wrote:
] >On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Kim Davies wrote:
] >
] > > Quoting Lucian Daniel Kafka on Saturday November 09, 2002:
] > > | >
] > > | >This is really a non-event. Nothing will change if you don't change your
] > > | >hints file.
] > > |
] > > | You do have to change your hints file - its like a regular zone refresh
] > > | except manual.

] Doing nothing is one of the solutions. Some people are still keen to keep 
] the consistency by the book, letting aside the incurred lookup delays when 
] old J's round-robin term comes up, or any security concerns regarding the 
] query of an untrusted non-authoritive server.

The hints file is used by BIND only at startup time to ask one of
the real root servers for the current list of root servers.  Once
BIND has gotten an answer from a real root server it throws away
the root.hints info and uses the list the root server returned.

So the worst case I can see for lookup delays is that first query
to find root servers when BIND starts might need to be repeated,
if you got the 1 in 13 which is old and if that 1 did not respond.

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 David Keegel <djk&#167;cyber.com.au>  URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/
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