named talking to rootserver while startup

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Thu Sep 9 14:38:12 UTC 1999


No.. If you were the rootserver, you wouldn't normally forward.
You are asking about how to connect to the internet without connecting
to the internet without connecting to the internet. 

How often do you need to restart the server??? 

Michael

Frank Luzat wrote:
> 
> Michael Voight wrote:
> >
> > That's how the BIND works. The server picks a root server at random from
> > the root hints, and then gets an updated root server list from the
> > contacted root server. Well, you could become local root, but that
> > wouldn't help you get to the internet.
> 
> So, if my computer was the rootserver it wouldn´t dial-up my line at
> startup. And this could work with some forwarders, right?
> So how do I become localroot?
> 
> --
> Frank Luzat


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