root name servers

[Barry Margolin]

In article <19990714122357.A22061 at dblab.ece.ntua.gr>,
Yiorgos Adamopoulos  <adamo at dblab.ece.ntua.gr> wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 06:01:33PM -0400, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
>> This is usually not particularly useful information, since your name
>> server will find the closest one and use it.
>
>It can be if you want to build a smaller named.root.  Now why would one want to
>that I have no idea, but since a customer wanted to know, I had to ask ...

What good would that do?  The first thing that named does when it starts up
is ask one of the servers in the hints file for a complete list of the
current root servers, and from then on it uses that list, not the one in
the file.

But maybe he wants to customize his named.root file so that this initial
query is likely to go to a nearby root server.  Talk about
micro-optimization!

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