On Fri 2018-01-26 12:08:47 +0100, Witold Baryluk wrote: > I noticed that db.root is rather old from February 17, 2016; > > but newest version on internic is from November 16, 2017. > > Notable changes between them: > > IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET changed. > > IPv6 address added for E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > > IPv6 address added for G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > > IPv6 address changed for L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > > > From my measurements (Zurich, Switzerland), all old addresses are still > working, but new addresses are a bit faster in all cases. (by 10-20 ms > compared to old addresses).
shouldn't this data be removed from the bind9 package, and just have it instead depend directly on dns-root-data? It'd be better if we only have to keep this stuff up-to-date in one place, which should most likley be /usr/share/dns/root.hints --dkg