Repotting report

Mon Feb 4 22:20:20 UTC 2008

On 4-Feb-2008, at 16:05, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> And the new named.root has arrived:
>
> ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root

I seem to think it has become fairly widespread practice for people to  
refresh their named.root files (or whatever they decide to call it)  
using something like this:

$ dig . NS >named.root

This worked before today. From today, it still works (in the sense  
that it will still result in a named.root file which is sufficiently  
complete in most situations for a nameserver to be able to send a  
priming query) but it won't contain a complete set of glue.

So, if you're in the habit of doing

   dig . NS >named.root

you would ideally change that habit to something like

   curl -O ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root

instead. (Incidentally, for me, rs.internic.net is giving "530 Login  
incorrect" after PASS when logging in using "ftp" or "anonymous").

Joe