[dns-operations] New addresses for b.root-servers.net

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Dave Knight <dave at knig.ht> said:
> Aiui BIND9 uses the root.hints just once on receipt of the first query when starting with an empty cache, whereupon it will use the hints to find a root server to do a priming query, replacing the hints with the result of that.

It's been a long while since I looked - how is that done?  Do the
resolvers query multiple servers from their hints (and somehow resolve
differences), or do they just pick one at random and accept the results?

It seems like maybe if they'd query multiple and take a majority opinion
of the results, the potential damage of hijacking of an old IP would be
minimized.
-- 
Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>