Search Again: Re: Follow up on DNS lookup problems. From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2004 Time: 3:18:06 pm At 2:21 PM -0800 11/2/04, Jody McAlister wrote: >Should I be concerned that... > >1. before I ran the commands you gave, the file said last updated in 1997. No. >2. That after I run the commands, the file doesn't have root >servers Addresses listed, just their names. Yes, that's a problem. (A colleague, reading my answer, reminded me that not all name servers give a complete Additional section, nor even any Additional records.) Try this instead: sudo -s dig @a.root-servers.net > /var/named/conf/root.hint exit Chris Buxton Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy Customer Service and Sales Engineer >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