On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 01:15:28PM -0500, Tom Penney wrote: > > Yes, but don't the root zone records expire just like other DNS > records? Correct me if I'm wrong because I'd really like to be sure I'm > understanding this correctly. > No, once a registrar pushes something into the 'root' zones, it stays there until removed. [snip redundant] > The root records have to expire at some point don't they? If not there > would be records floating around for every domain that was ever > registered directing traffic to old long deceased name servers. Am I > wrong? Only if the domain is still registered. Of course, there are still NS host records in the root zones that were invalid long ago, there have been a few attempts at cleaning them out, but it's a PITA. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list