Root.Cache... new one?

[D. Stussy]

On 10 Sep 1999, Lee Fuller wrote:
> Anyone know where to get the latest "root.cache" files?

In addition to the other answers, you could always do what I do:

zone "." {
	type stub;                  NOT TYPE = "HINT" !!!!
	file ".cache";              I like the starting file to be hidden ;-)
	masters { 198.41.0.4; 128.9.0.107; 192.33.4.12; 128.8.10.90;
                  192.203.230.10; 192.5.5.241; 192.112.36.4; 128.63.2.53;
                  192.36.148.17; 198.41.0.10; 193.0.14.129; 198.32.64.12;
                  202.12.27.33; };
};

If this stops updating, then none of the root servers appear in the "masters"
line above, but the ".cache" file will have root server addresses from the time
just before the last one changed.  Simply scan that file and change the
addresses in "named.conf" to resume - chances are that unless you really lose
touch (such that all the addresses save one [the one that was the last root
server that was valid in "named.conf"] in the ".cache" file are also out of
date), you'll always have at least one valid root nameserver address to start
over with.

This trick also worked with the "named.boot" setup for BIND version 4.