DIG root.hints update failure
Jim Reid
jim at rfc1035.com
Wed Jun 14 18:10:52 UTC 2000
>>>>> "Cricket" == Cricket Liu <cricket at acmebw.com> writes:
>> No. It will only throw errors if NONE of the name servers
>> listed in the file are reachable. This is extremely unlikely
>> unless the file exclusively consists of lies. The most probable
>> reason why the name server will complain that it can't find the
>> root servers is no access to the Internet because the link to
>> your ISP is down. It's hard to invent another scenario that
>> could explain why queries to all 9 or 13 name servers in the
>> root.cache file would fail or timeout.
Cricket> Actually, newer BIND name servers do note mismatches
Cricket> between the root hints file and the result of a system
Cricket> query.
True enough - I overlooked this earlier - but those checks are only
logged as warnings.
More information about the bind-users
mailing list