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I can ping the IP addresses of most of the root DNS servers but not all
of them.

The only way I can make dig work properly is to insert my ISP's DNS
servers into my named.conf, thus:

forwarders { 165.76.12.2; 165.76.116.2; };
forward only;

If anyone can shed any light on my problem, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks

Ian Masters

p.s. As I understand it, the entries in /etc/resolv.conf are irrelevant
to servers running BIND.