Slaving root zone?

[Danny Mayer]

At 01:56 PM 9/5/01, Marc C Storck wrote:

>>You're doing something wrong.  The root zone is of type hint and has no masters.
>>The zone name "mediamonks.net" doesn't need the trailing period, there's an
>>ending comment "*/" at the end of the logging clause. You should be looking
>>at what named.run says as well as what's in the application event log for details
>>of what's wrong.
>That's just not 100% correct ROOT-SERVERS do slave the "." (root) zone.

You're misreading this.  What the root servers do is not relevant here.  What
he has done is turn his own server into a root server and it will never query anywhere
else for a top-level domain (.com,.net, etc) since he's made his own BIND server
authorative. Since the db.root file will only contain the list of root servers it will
never find any of these TLD's.

>And that is just what he is trying to do!

That's not what he should be doing.

         Danny