NEWBIE QUESTION ABOUT DNS

[Mike Selders]

Stefano Santangelo wrote:

> how does my name server know the "root server"?

>From the root server "hints" file.  Using bind 8.2, this file essentially loads
a zone for the root servers with lines like the following in your named.conf
file.

zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "named.ca";
};


The named.ca file contains the needed information about the root servers, and
it is available from Internic at ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/

Hope this helps.

-- Mike Selders, Network Administrator
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