Setting up a Root name server

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Sep 3 14:11:27 UTC 1999


In article <036701bef5c3$8abfb540$b477a8ce at acmebw.com>,
Cricket Liu <cricket at acmebw.com> wrote:
>I'm not clear on how you're going to get your name servers to *use* this new
>internal root name server.  When your internal name servers start up,
>they'll fire off a query to one of the name servers in their root hints file
>and ask for the current list of roots.  Since your name server isn't in that
>list, they won't query it.

I assumed that the intent was to configure this on the server(s) that his
users point their resolvers to.

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