Building a fresh named.root

[Christian Tardif]

You're right. CentOS 6.3 does not have named.root. They just call it 
named.ca. That's actually the same file thing. You just need to refer to 
the right file name for hints.

Christian...

On 02/14/2013 08:35 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> The Centos 6.3 bind and bind-chroot do not seem to come with a 
> named.root.  Does have a named.ca, though.
>
> So from my old named.root.hints include (also not provided; where did 
> I get this?) I tried:
>
> wget ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/named.root
>
> And got a nice looking named.root  last updated 1/3/2013, with nice 
> comments on who use to run the various root servers.
>
> Then I tried:
>
> dig . ns @198.41.0.4 > named.root
>
> I see where this addr is the A root server, anyway, the response did 
> not have A records for B, E, I, J, or L !!! And of course no AAAA 
> records for I, J, or L.  It has NS records for A thru M.
>
> What went wrong here?
>
> Which do I use?
>
>
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