[dns-operations] Updating named.root for the mere purpose of updating it?!

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Tue Sep 5 14:54:04 UTC 2017


Carsten Schiefner <dotberlin.cs at schiefner.de> wrote:
>
> I wonder what the reason behind named.root's most recent update is:

I guess it's auto-generated from rootns.c and that contains more than
just the root hints, so there can be extraneous changes - see
https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git;a=history;f=lib/dns/rootns.c;hb=HEAD

Tony.
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