To:
"'Robert Elz'" <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>, hardie@equinix.com
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se, aroot@ops.ietf.org
From:
"Larson, Matt" <mlarson@verisign.com>
Date:
Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:39:40 -0500
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
RE: Anycast root metrics and analysis
> What's more the comparative stability of the root zone actually makes that harder (it is > easy to set up and test update procedures for a database that changes every day, much > harder for one that only changes once a year or so). FWIW, the root zone is generated twice daily, along with the com, net, org, arpa and edu zones, all from the same back-end database. In the case of the root zone, the only thing that usually changes is the SOA serial number, which is date-based. Matt -- Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com> VeriSign Global Registry Services / www.verisign-grs.com