root servers

[Michael Kjorling]

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And the only reason I have a monthly update is that setting it up that
way was the 'least often' I could get it without complicating the
shell command line too much. (I wanted to keep it all in the crontab,
which has a line-length limitation I haven't bothered to look into
much. But after a certain number of characters, it simply cuts the
rest then passes the result to the shell.)


Michael Kjörling


On Aug 1 2001 12:19 +0100, Jim Reid wrote:

> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Kjorling <michael at kjorling.com> writes:
>
>     Michael> I have a cron job set up to run once a month to grab the
>     Michael> newest list of root servers (which, by the way, hasn't
>     Michael> changed since Aug '00):
>
> There is no need for this. Although keeping an up to date copy of the
> roots hints file is a good thing, a monthly update is overkill. Your
> name server only uses that file at start-up to send a query to find
> the actual names and addresses of the root servers, that's all. The
> root servers haven't changed in years and are unlikely to change for a
> long time, probably never. The current file at ftp.rs.internic.net has
> a change date from August last year. However the file's contents have
> not changed for much longer than that. It has a comment saying the
> file was last updated in August 1997!

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