The SWAMP

Mon Sep 9 11:31:01 UTC 1996

> As far as I know, as long as one of the IP addresses in a local
> name server's root hints file is correct and that root name
> server is reachable, the local name server will operate
> correctly.  Changes to the root hints file are currently not
> terribly frequent, and updating it once per half year (or maybe
> even less frequent) does not seem like an inordinately heavy
> burden.

	I should probably not answer this since it has likely
	been answered.   The tradeoff is one of a small number
	of well known routes that won't change vs periodically
	updating an increasingly large (20-20 million+) root
	hints files.

> wanting to do the same or similar things.  As the recent events
> should make evident, the last thing we need right now is creating
> a precedent for spreading /32 routes or needlessly propagating
> other "special-purpose" and non-aggregateable routes.
> 
> - Havard

	Cisco Routers are going to fail, regardless of what we
	do with regard to controling routing table entries.  We'll
	hit that brick wall soon and will bounce off and move on.


-- 
--bill