Re: [IFWP] Who distributes root list?

[J. Baptista]

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Richard J. Sexton wrote:

> At 12:45 AM 10/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Who distributes the root list that local DNS servers use?  If the roots 
> >change, or if the IP# changes how do they know about the change?
> >
> >--Joseph
> 
> BIND ships from ISC with the IANA legacy root preconfigured.
> 
> People upgrade BIND much more often than the IP addresses of
> the lagacy root server cluster ever changes, so each time
> they upgrade BIND, they get the latest.

That's interesting. The distribution of DNS Bind versions would be as
follows.

                BIND Version    Percentage
                ------------    ----------
                    4.9.5           9%
                    4.9.6          12%
                    4.9.7          20%
                    8.1.1           6%
                    8.1.2          45%
                    8.2             8%

It would be interesting to compare the root caches to the BIND versions.

Cheers
Joe Baptista

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