Slaving root zone?

[Terrence Koeman]

There is no workaround;

if you put "." in the named.conf, "" is passed to named-xfer.exe,
if you put "" in the named.conf, "" is passed to named-xfer.exe,
if you put anything else in the named.conf then antyshing else is passed to
named-xfer.exe :p

But even if I wanted to run a pre release versin, I can't find it anywhere
;)

Regards,

Terrence Koeman

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Simon Waters
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 22:28
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Subject: Re: Slaving root zone?



Terrence Koeman wrote:
>
> OK, lets make things clear. I'm currently running MS-DNS, which slaves '.'
> perfectly.

I was thinking Barry was right till you said the OSRC root *8-)

Anyway reread Mark's post not only does it have the patch
information, it also has the work around. <rhetorical>How on
earth did this thread get so long?</rhetorical>

According to my mail archive a Mr Paul Vixie said 8.2.5rc1 was
released 2001-08-10. That is a release candidate. 8.3 is also
not formally a release version, but still being tested. See
www.isc.org

So unless your happy using "", or a pre-release version, I don't
think you'll like BIND, and BIND 9 on NT is fun till 9.2.0rc1 I
gather..... Or has anyone got 9.1.3 on NT as a slave root?

ISC (?) usually run release candidates of 8 on root name servers
before a formal release, so presumably they have some confidence
in them, although I guess the ICANN roots have a lot of
redundancy, should it break YMMV.