Setting up a Root name server

[Cricket Liu]

> I'm going to add my internal root server to the hint file. I will leave
all the
> other root name servers in there as well, since the RTT on my server
should
> be better then all the rest the resolvers will automatically use it.

That's not going to be enough, for reasons I've already described.  When
your name servers start up, they'll send a sysquery to one of the name
servers in the root hints file--picked at random--and ask for the current
list of roots.  13 out of 14 times that list will not include your internal
root name server at all, so they won't use it.

cricket

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