resolving the ip address for the root servers

[Bill Manning]

 Note that this particular "hints" file is out of date.
 The TTLs were adjusted several years ago and four new
 root servers were added.


% 
% 
% 	Because "hints" are just that "hints".  They are used to prime the
% 	cache.
% 
% 	Mark
% > 
% > Hi all,  I've just spent the better part of the day trying to debug this
% > and reading newsgroups to no avail.  We are running Bind 8.2.2-P3 on
% > RedHat Linux. Everything appears to be working fine but it appears that
% > we are going to the root servers to resolve the address of the root
% > servers!   Our root.cache file must be working,
% > seeing as Bind knows the address of the root servers, but nslookup
% > a.root-servers.net generates traffic instead of resolving locally.  This
% > becomes apparent when the connection to the internet is down, because
% > then
% > nslookup a.root-servers.net fails.   Why is this.
% > 
% > This is the named.conf entry:
% > 
% > zone "." in {
% >         type hint;
% >         file "root.cache";
% > };
% > 
% > And the file root.cache is:
% > 
% > .                       999999  IN      NS      A.root-servers.net.
% >                         999999  IN      NS      B.root-servers.net.
% >                         999999  IN      NS      C.root-servers.net.
% >                         999999  IN      NS      D.root-servers.net.
% >                         999999  IN      NS      E.root-servers.net.
% >                         999999  IN      NS      F.root-servers.net.
% >                         999999  IN      NS      G.root-servers.net.
% >                         999999  IN      NS      H.root-servers.net.
% >                         999999  IN      NS      I.root-servers.net.
% > A.root-servers.net.     999999  IN      A       198.41.0.4
% > B.root-servers.net.     999999  IN      A       128.9.0.107
% > C.root-servers.net.     999999  IN      A       192.33.4.12
% > D.root-servers.net.     999999  IN      A       128.8.10.90
% > E.root-servers.net.     999999  IN      A       192.203.230.10
% > F.root-servers.net.     999999  IN      A       129.5.5.241
% > G.root-servers.net.     999999  IN      A       192.112.36.4
% > H.root-servers.net.     999999  IN      A       128.63.2.53
% > I.root-servers.net.     999999  IN      A       192.36.148.17
% > 
% > Can anyone explain this?  Thanks in advance.
% > 
% > --
% > Ragnar Paulson    ragnar at thesoftwaregroup.on.ca
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% > 
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% > 
% > 
% > 
% > 
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--bill