[lir-wg] Important Informational Message - root.zone change

Modern DNS software does all that automatically. People do not have to touch it.
Manual operations are expensive, prone to error and require humans to fly around
in meat space explaining how things do not work. It is better to build a NetWork.

Jim Fleming
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Crain" <crain at icann.org>
To: "'Daniel Karrenberg'" <Daniel.Karrenberg at ripe.net>
Cc: "'RIPE DNS WG'" <dns-wg at ripe.net>; "'RIPE LIR WG'" <lir-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 10:41 AM
Subject: RE: [lir-wg] Important Informational Message - root.zone change


This is of course true, but it doesn't mean you should wait 5 years.

Not updating you hints is not going to cause you any grief but it is
good practice to keep it
up to date when it changes.

JC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lir-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:lir-wg-admin at ripe.net] On 
> Behalf Of Daniel Karrenberg
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:33 PM
> To: John Crain
> Cc: 'RIPE DNS WG'; 'RIPE LIR WG'
> Subject: RE: [lir-wg] Important Informational Message - 
> root.zone change
> 
> 
> Also note that a hints file change is ***not required***.
> You can do that anytime within the next -say- 5 **years** or 
> so. Your DNS will continue to work as long as there is at 
> least one valid root server address in the hints file. 
> 
> Daniel
>