> 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
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VeriSign Global Registry Services / www.verisign-grs.com
