Building a fresh named.root

[Warren Kumari]

BIND now comes with a baked in roots file (in the imaginatively named lib/dns/rootns.c )

There is no need for a named.root file, and is just another thing to go wrong…

W
On Feb 14, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:

> The Centos 6.3 bind and bind-chroot do not seem to come with a named.root.  Does have a named.ca, though.
> 
> So from my old named.root.hints include (also not provided; where did I get this?) I tried:
> 
> wget ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/named.root
> 
> And got a nice looking named.root  last updated 1/3/2013, with nice comments on who use to run the various root servers.
> 
> Then I tried:
> 
> dig . ns @198.41.0.4 > named.root
> 
> I see where this addr is the A root server, anyway, the response did not have A records for B, E, I, J, or L !!! And of course no AAAA records for I, J, or L.  It has NS records for A thru M.
> 
> What went wrong here?
> 
> Which do I use?
> 
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