root servers list changing?

[Cricket Liu]

> Why do I suddenly feel like the ungrateful apprentice
> under the baleful glare of the master :-)

Oh, no--honestly, I'm just interested.  I thought if you had specific
complaints I might file them away for the fifth edition.

> > > Well looks like I'll be off to buy the 4th edition of DNS + Bind
> > > today.  I was resisting because I have the 1st edition and I was a
little
> > > underwhelmed by it :-(
> >
> > What did you find underwhelming about it (besides that it's ten
> > years out of date)?
>
> Going from memory ... (sorry, I don't have handy -- I've probably
> lost it.)  It had a tendency to use assumptions
> and jargon.  A tendency of many technical books; that's
> nothing particular to this book really.  It's a common
> comment about technical books that easy to follow once
> you know the subject.

Well, I'm not exactly sure what you mean.  If you mean DNS jargon,
yeah, it absolutely uses a lot of jargon.  I would count any book on
DNS as remiss that didn't introduce you to a lot of DNS jargon.

> One particular frustration that I remember I had was that
> it didn't have an example of the primary file for the
> localhost/loopback domain.

Like the one on p. 66 of the fourth edition?  :-)

It's been there since at least the second edition, which I have a copy
of with me, and it's probably in the first.  If it is, it's in Chapter 4.

> That's sort of like the 'hello world' program of DNS.  Good
> to give something to start with and to see sort of errors you
> get if you change it.
>
> I didn't end up buying 4th ed. yet .. $120 here :-(
> I'll read the BoG first ...

Yikes!  Well, I guess that's the price of living in the beautiful
antipodes, eh?

cricket

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