Building a fresh named.root

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 02/14/2013 10:18 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> More AAAA records 1/3/2013 than in the named.ca stub which IF my version has
>> it builtin raises the question about keeping current at this time in the
>> Internet (and trusting Redhat to roll in new builtin hints as they go).
> No need to worry. They are only hints, and named uses them to get the
> current list of root name servers at startup.

Thanks.  Now I just have to find out from the Centos list if my version 
has them built in.

> Even if they are 15 years
> out of date it will still work, because the root name servers do not
> change very often.

And with anycast they will probably not change until IPv9...

Check out RFC 1606.