Sorry for the noise, but before I blush through any more corrections (that many have been kind enough to do offlist), let me say I for some reason didn't realize Jefsey was refring to the root hints and for some reason assumed he was suggesting everyone recieve a copy of the tld zones hosted by the root servers. Ooops. nick _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf