creating my own root server

[Simon Waters]

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jose.a.campos at exxonmobil.com wrote:
>
> Everything seems to be working ok, but the following msg keeps
popping up
> on my internal server:
> Jan 20 12:49:34 my-server-name named[18329]: [ID 295310
daemon.notice]
> check_root: 1 root servers after query to root server < min
>
> Is named expecting/assuming there's more than one root name
server ?

Yes, it isn't fully implemented in BIND-9 yet, but BIND has a
"min-roots" option, which is configurable and defaults to 2 I
believe.

As Langfeldt elegantly puts it, you don't need to tune this
number, as 2 is fine for the Internet which has 13, and no one
would deploy an Internal DNS with less than 2 root-servers.

You are at least one root server short, do not pass go, do not
collect 200 pounds.

The documentation implies BIND 8 may do weird stuff like not
answer queries for the root zone (not sure I believe this, it
would be an odd default - fail unsafe), but no one is deploying
BIND 8 anymore RIGHT!?
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