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[Steven Stromer]

On RedHat/Fedora it is:

zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.root";
};

I'd assume it's the same on others. Make certain the file exists.  
There has been some recent confusion regarding this, where, on some  
distros, named.conf calls for named.root, when the packaged file has  
been named named.ca. This obviously won't work, so:

In a chrooted environment:
cd /var/named/chroot/var/named/
mv named.ca named.root

Or in a non-chained environment:
cd /var/named/
mv named.ca named.root


Just make sure that file "<name>", matches with either /var/named/ 
chroot/var/named/<name> or with /var/named/<name>, as is applicable  
to you.


Steven Stromer


On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:44 PM, jonr at destar.net wrote:

> Quoting Bob Hoffman <bob at bobhoffman.com>:
>
>> zone "." {
>> 	type hint;
>> 	file "root.hint";  it finds it and has all the root servers
>> };
>
> Is the filename really root.hint or is it root.hints? and is this file
> in the same directory as the named.conf?
>
> Jon
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