Setting up a Root name server

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37C6297B.884E6CEF at megabytecoffee.com>,
Chris Roach  <chris at megabytecoffee.com> wrote:
>    How would I go about setting up a root name server, I have the TLD
>files from internic and would like to set up a root server for my
>network. We currently host about 250k IP's and believe that this would
>speed up our network a lot.

Probably not.  Your server should cache the common TLD entries pretty
quickly.  And there are servers for .COM distributed all around the world,
so you should be able to get those answers pretty quickly.

>I've tried a few things but can't seem to get named to load the xxx.zone
>files right...
>What should the named.conf file look like for something like this??

zone "." {
  type master;
  filename "root.zone";
}

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