DIG root.hints update failure

G. Roderick Singleton gsingleton at home.com
Mon Jun 12 14:28:28 UTC 2000


Jim Reid wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Hartwell <hartweb at pacbell.net> writes:
> 
>     Bruce> I am using DIG to update my root.hints file, format: dig
>     Bruce> @rs.internic.net . ns > root.hints.new 2>&1
> 
>     Bruce> Each time it runs I receive:
> 
>     Bruce> res_nsend to server rs.internic.net 198.41.0.6: Connection timeout.
> 
>     Bruce> Am I pointing DIG to the correct root server?
> 
> No. 198.41.0.6 doesn't seem to run a name server, far less act as a
> root server.
> 
> There's probably no need to "update your root.hints file". That file
> hasn't changed in years. And if you have an out of date copy, the
> current version is available at:
>         ftp:ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/named.root
> and no doubt at zillions of archive sites all over the net.
> 
> BTW, if your name server is configured correctly it will already know
> the names and addresses of the root name servers. So you could just
> query it for that information. The info in the root.hints file -
> sometimes called root.cache or root.ca - serves as a hint to your name
> server. It's used to find the actual names and addresses of the root
> servers. When a name server starts, one or more of the IP addresses in
> that file is asked for the details of the root servers. It just
> happens that the well-known addresses for these "hint" servers in
> root.hints turn out to be the root servers themselves.

I looked at the URL and found that the file is out-of-date, May 22,
1999. It seems they have changed the root servers in the meantime
resulting in error above. Dig is still a good way to
update your named.ca only I think the incantation should be
	dig . ns >named.ca 
or whatever.  I got no errors using this.
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