AXFR root zone

staticsafe me at staticsafe.ca
Sun Sep 28 22:02:58 UTC 2014


On 9/28/2014 17:59, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 
> I ask because I have indeed written a script which I will be running
> on the order of once per day, and which needs to be able to suck
> down a copy of the root zone.  May I rely on this continuing to
> work for the forseeable future if I hardcode my little script with
> the name "k.root-servers.net"?  Or is there a better choice for
> the long term?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> rfg

Hi,

I suggest using:
xfr.lax.dns.icann.org
xfr.cjr.dns.icann.org

As mentioned on http://www.dns.icann.org/services/axfr/. I found out
about it via a comment in the named.conf shipped in the FreeBSD ports
version.

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