conf/173077: BIND slaves root and arpa zones on wrong servers

[Damien Fleuriot]

The following reply was made to PR conf/173077; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Damien Fleuriot <dam at my.gd>
To: Borja Marcos <borjam at sarenet.es>
Cc: "bug-followup at FreeBSD.org" <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: conf/173077: BIND slaves root and arpa zones on wrong servers
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 21:06:24 +0200

 On 7 May 2013, at 11:10, Borja Marcos <borjam at sarenet.es> wrote:
 
 > I wouldn't advise to use this unless  it's really closely monitored.
 >=20
 > The zone statement in bind's configuration file needs IP addresses, not na=
 mes, to specify master servers. So, if the IP addresses change the configura=
 tion can be useless.
 >=20
 > Actually this happened on April 30th 2013.  The listed IP addresses are ob=
 solete.
 >=20
 > xfr.lax.dns.icann.org was 192.0.32.140, now it is 192.0.32.132
 > xfr.cjr.dns.icann.org was 192.0.47.140, now it is 192.0.47.132
 >=20
 > I haven't seen any notice.
 >=20
 
 Neither have I, and it caused us trouble just today when our caches expired.=