Building a fresh named.root

[Chris Buxton]

On Feb 15, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I will do some more testing with this to see if I can indeed remove the root.hint includes.  But I have a question.  I have tried to dig in my server for the root info like you can a root server, but obviously this is not the way to do it, as I get an empty list eventhough I know I can resolve names that I am not authoritative for.
> 
> I tried
> 
> dig +bufsize=4096 . ns @localhost
> 
> (and without the bufsize) and it comes back with a warning that recursion requested but not available and an empty list.  More interestingly is that in /var/log/messages it shows:
> 
> named[2872]: client ::1#57049: view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> 
> I would think this should go to my internal view?  I even put 127.0.0.1 into my match-clients/destinations network list and it is still using the external view.


The hostname 'localhost' can mean different things to different computers. It probably means ::1 (IPv6 localhost) in this case. Try explicitly specifying the IP address rather than using the hostname.

Chris Buxton
BlueCat Networks