Newbie question - updated root nameservers file?

[Charles Scott]

Barry,

Thanks for the info. It is nice to know it is automatically updated.

Charles

"Barry Margolin" <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote in message
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> 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I check to see if my file is out of date?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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> Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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