Newbie question - updated root nameservers file?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <s8cg1q7aeh6144 at corp.supernews.com>,
Charles Scott <Charles_Scott at strategicfulfillment.com> wrote:
>I have just started setting up BIND 8.2.1 on RedHat 6.1. I noticed that the
>named.ca file was last updated Aug 22, 1997. When I tried to go to the ftp
>site listed to see if there was a newer one, I couldn't get there. Where can
>I check to see if my file is out of date?

The file I have is dated the same, and has the following in the header:

;       This file is made available by InterNIC registration services
;       under anonymous FTP as
;           file                /domain/named.root
;           on server           FTP.RS.INTERNIC.NET

I just went to ftp.rs.internic.net with no problem, and the file hasn't
changed.

However, if you couldn't, the way to verify the data is with:

dig . ns @a.root-servers.net

It's not really critical to have the latest file.  The first thing that
named does when it starts up is send the above query to each of the servers
in the file until it gets a response.  It then uses the root server list
that is returned, not the list in the file.

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