Help with BIND 8

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Fri Oct 1 15:41:29 UTC 1999


"Douglas, Earl S." <edouglas at kpmg.ca> writes:

> Exactly what is the error message you were getting?
> In order to use root cache file you must define the zone like any other.
> 
> zone "." IN {
>         type master;
>         file "root.hint";
> };

Unless you are REALLY running a root nameserver, the type must be
"hint", not "master".

zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "root.cache";
};

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