Slaving root zone?
Marc C Storck
marc at storck.org
Wed Sep 5 21:11:40 UTC 2001
Have a look:
http://www.open-rsc.org
http://www.opennic.unrated.net
http://www.pacroot.com
etc
etc
Please forgive me if I missed other alternative root systems, this is just
to give an idea to Danny of what we are talking about.
Marc
At 15:36 05.09.01 -0400, Danny Mayer wrote:
>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
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