Search Again: Re: Follow up on DNS lookup problems. From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2004 Time: 10:31:06 am As long as at least some of the servers listed in your root hints file are accurate, you don't need to worry about it. Once a week or so, and every time it starts up, your server will get a current list of root servers from whichever root servers it can find. In other words, the root hints file (the list of root servers in the server's options window) is just used as servers to ask, when the server first starts up, for the correct list of root servers. If you want to update the file, the simplest way is to use the dig command, without options, and direct the output into the root.hint file. For example, on Mac OS X: sudo -s dig > /var/named/conf/root.hint exit Chris Buxton Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy Customer Service and Sales Engineer At 10:14 AM -0800 11/2/04, Jody McAlister wrote: >Besides making the -4 adjustment, do I need to also update my root >servers list. If so, what do I need to do? > >I ask because the lists are also talking about two root servers >being decommissioned.

Messages In This Thread: Follow up on DNS lookup problems. by Jody McAlister on Nov 2, 2004 at 10:16:09 am Re: Follow up on DNS lookup problems. by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 2004 at 10:31:06 am Re: Follow up on DNS lookup problems. by Jody McAlister on Nov 2, 2004 at 10:43:25 am Re: Follow up on DNS lookup problems. by Jody McAlister on Nov 2, 2004 at 2:23:28 pm Re: Follow up on DNS lookup problems. by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 2004 at 3:18:06 pm Re: Follow up on DNS lookup problems. by Jody McAlister on Nov 2, 2004 at 3:28:02 pm