d root server

[Lyle Giese]

Your bind code is old and has the old info in it.  D root changed it's 
ip address.  Bind has a built-in hints file, in case you don't setup one 
and it probably has the old ip address for the D root.

http://blog.icann.org/2012/12/d-root/

Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.

On 08/20/13 15:44, rohan.henry at cwjamaica.com wrote:
> Edward,
>
> Agreed.
>
> My concern though is why the following show up in my logs when the IP is already in the root hint file.
>
> checkhints: d.root-servers.net/A (199.7.91.13) missing from hints
>
> Regards,
> Rohan
>
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:40:09 -0400
>   Edward DeLargy <eddelargy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Rohan,
>>           Normally you shouldn't need to. However, sometimes errors happen
>> and we just need to correct them as they come.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ed
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:26 PM, <rohan.henry at cwjamaica.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Edward,
>>>
>>> I didn't think I needed to edit the downloaded root hint file. In fact the
>>> d.root-server.net server is assigned the IP address in the dig output
>>> below. I do not know where 128.8.10.90 comes from.
>>>
>>> dig d.root-servers.net
>>>
>>> ; <<>> DiG 9.7.2-P3 <<>> d.root-servers.net
>>> ;; global options: +cmd
>>> ;; Got answer:
>>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54457
>>> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>>>
>>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>>> ;d.root-servers.net.            IN      A
>>>
>>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>>> d.root-servers.net.     156446  IN      A       199.7.91.13
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rohan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:20:23 -0400
>>>   Edward DeLargy <eddelargy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Ah..I also just thought of this....ensure that you have two seperate IPs
>>>> for the server in the hints..you may have two entries with the same IP.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Ed
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:12 PM, <rohan.henry at cwjamaica.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Why do I still get the following in my logs even after downloading the
>>>>> latest version root hint file.
>>>>>
>>>>> checkhints: d.root-servers.net/A (128.8.10.90) extra record in hints
>>>>> checkhints: d.root-servers.net/A (199.7.91.13) missing from hints
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Rohan
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