[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#888491: Bug#888491: bind9: Provide up to date db.root in stable Debian release

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

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