DIG root.hints update failure

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Cricket" == Cricket Liu <cricket at acmebw.com> writes:

    >> No. It will only throw errors if NONE of the name servers
    >> listed in the file are reachable. This is extremely unlikely
    >> unless the file exclusively consists of lies. The most probable
    >> reason why the name server will complain that it can't find the
    >> root servers is no access to the Internet because the link to
    >> your ISP is down. It's hard to invent another scenario that
    >> could explain why queries to all 9 or 13 name servers in the
    >> root.cache file would fail or timeout.

    Cricket> Actually, newer BIND name servers do note mismatches
    Cricket> between the root hints file and the result of a system
    Cricket> query.

True enough - I overlooked this earlier - but those checks are only
logged as warnings.