Building a fresh named.root

[Steven Carr]

On 14 February 2013 13:35, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> What went wrong here?
>
> Which do I use?

Not sure what is up with your dig response (can you post the contents)
but it works for me and if your dig still isn't working use the one
from FTP.

sjcarr at elmo:~ $ dig . ns @198.41.0.4

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> . ns @198.41.0.4
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6958
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.				IN	NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
.			518400	IN	NS	j.root-servers.net.
.			518400	IN	NS	k.root-servers.net.
.			518400	IN	NS	e.root-servers.net.
.			518400	IN	NS	h.root-servers.net.
.			518400	IN	NS	a.root-servers.net.
.			518400	IN	NS	g.root-servers.net.
.			518400	IN	NS	f.root-servers.net.
.			518400	IN	NS	l.root-servers.net.
.			518400	IN	NS	i.root-servers.net.
.			518400	IN	NS	b.root-servers.net.
.			518400	IN	NS	d.root-servers.net.
.			518400	IN	NS	c.root-servers.net.
.			518400	IN	NS	m.root-servers.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
j.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	AAAA	2001:503:c27::2:30
j.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	A	192.58.128.30
k.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	AAAA	2001:7fd::1
k.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	A	193.0.14.129
e.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	A	192.203.230.10
h.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	AAAA	2001:500:1::803f:235
h.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	A	128.63.2.53
a.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	AAAA	2001:503:ba3e::2:30
a.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	A	198.41.0.4
g.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	A	192.112.36.4
f.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	AAAA	2001:500:2f::f
f.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	A	192.5.5.241
l.root-servers.net.	3600000	IN	AAAA	2001:500:3::42

;; Query time: 44 msec
;; SERVER: 198.41.0.4#53(198.41.0.4)
;; WHEN: Thu Feb 14 13:40:13 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 508