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At 4:03 PM +0000 1/12/02, Dave Reddy wrote:
Re: silly question about root.hints
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Saturday, January 12, 2002
Time: 11:14:53 am
>Have recently installed bind 8.2.5 on RH linux 7.1 and QDNS remote on
>top. Before running the arrange script I had only created a blank
>named.conf file. Having successfully logged onto the server through QDNS
>manager I have added the root servers through the Options window and
>saved successfully.
You had to manually add root servers? QuickDNS Remote comes with a
functioning root hints file. If there were no root servers listed,
something went wrong.
>Problem is now that Bind can't see any root servers. ( get a nlookup
>error and can't dig outside zones). The /var/named/conf/root.hint is
>populated. Am i missing something obvious here? - Do i need to create a
>valid named.conf with root hints before running the arrange script?
If you look at named.conf, it should now contain a number of
'include' statements. In particular, it should bring in
/var/named/conf/user_after, which should have a zone statement for
the root hints zone.
from /etc/named.conf:
include "/var/named/conf/user_after";
from /var/named/conf/user_after:
zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "conf/root.hint";
};
Also, check the log. Is it loading the root hints zone? It should say
so, right at the beginning of starting up. Here's a snippet from a
log file that mentions the hint zone (from a Mac OS X machine):
10-Jan-2002 07:11:54.796 load: info: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
10-Jan-2002 07:11:54.800 default: info: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo0)
10-Jan-2002 07:11:54.801 default: info: listening on [192.168.1.4].53 (en0)
10-Jan-2002 07:11:54.802 default: info: Forwarding source address is
[0.0.0.0].4
9470
10-Jan-2002 07:11:54.813 default: notice: Ready to answer queries.
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Chris Buxton Men & Mice
support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy
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