Search Again: Re: Follow up on DNS lookup problems. From: Jody McAlister Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2004 Time: 10:43:25 am Thanks for all your help on this! On Nov 2, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Men & Mice Support wrote: > 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. > > > Jody McAlister President In-Site Communications 707-765-9993/800-998-1711

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