"named.ca" not found

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:10:09PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 7:15 PM +0200 6/15/01, Len Conrad wrote:

> >  dig @a.root-servers.net . ns > named.ca

> 	You should *NEVER* do this, without first checking the output 
> from the "dig" command.  If the results were somehow munged and you 
> over-wrote your named.ca file, you would be well and truly hosed.

	I think the implications here was that there was none to
begin with.  But you are sort of right.  I would not do this in the
same directory that bind was working in.  Do it in another directory,
verify the file, and then move it into place.  Otherwise, how would
you know if you "first checking the output from the "dig" command" was
fine and the second one failed (due to network conditions or whatever).

> -- 
> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
> 
> /*        efdtt.c  Author:  Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net>          */
> /*       Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody         */
> /*     Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers        */
> /*                                                                      */
> /*     Usage is:  cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob        */
> /*   where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key    */
> 
> dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'

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