resolving the ip address for the root servers
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Wed May 31 00:57:37 UTC 2000
Because "hints" are just that "hints". They are used to prime the
cache.
Mark
>
> Hi all, I've just spent the better part of the day trying to debug this
> and reading newsgroups to no avail. We are running Bind 8.2.2-P3 on
> RedHat Linux. Everything appears to be working fine but it appears that
> we are going to the root servers to resolve the address of the root
> servers! Our root.cache file must be working,
> seeing as Bind knows the address of the root servers, but nslookup
> a.root-servers.net generates traffic instead of resolving locally. This
> becomes apparent when the connection to the internet is down, because
> then
> nslookup a.root-servers.net fails. Why is this.
>
> This is the named.conf entry:
>
> zone "." in {
> type hint;
> file "root.cache";
> };
>
> And the file root.cache is:
>
> . 999999 IN NS A.root-servers.net.
> 999999 IN NS B.root-servers.net.
> 999999 IN NS C.root-servers.net.
> 999999 IN NS D.root-servers.net.
> 999999 IN NS E.root-servers.net.
> 999999 IN NS F.root-servers.net.
> 999999 IN NS G.root-servers.net.
> 999999 IN NS H.root-servers.net.
> 999999 IN NS I.root-servers.net.
> A.root-servers.net. 999999 IN A 198.41.0.4
> B.root-servers.net. 999999 IN A 128.9.0.107
> C.root-servers.net. 999999 IN A 192.33.4.12
> D.root-servers.net. 999999 IN A 128.8.10.90
> E.root-servers.net. 999999 IN A 192.203.230.10
> F.root-servers.net. 999999 IN A 129.5.5.241
> G.root-servers.net. 999999 IN A 192.112.36.4
> H.root-servers.net. 999999 IN A 128.63.2.53
> I.root-servers.net. 999999 IN A 192.36.148.17
>
> Can anyone explain this? Thanks in advance.
>
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