Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.

Tue Dec 18 16:15:22 UTC 2012

On Dec 17, 2012, at 11:30 PM, ITechGeek <itg at itechgeek.com> wrote:
> For anyone who is worried that the root server change might impact them,
> they can go to http://www.iana.org/domains/root/files and download the root
> zone file.  It probably won't need to be updated again until the next round
> of gTLDs is approved.

Err, no.

The root zone changes twice a day and its contents change quite frequently as TLD managers update their name servers, do key rollovers, etc.

If you're going to copy the root zone, I'd recommend using a zone transfer from the name servers described in http://dns.icann.org/services/axfr/ or, at the very least, set up a cron job to pull the root zone twice a day.

WRT the root _hints_ change, setting up a cron job to pull, verify, and install the root hints file periodically (once a month should probably be sufficient) would probably be a good idea.

Regards,
-drc