Building a fresh named.root

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 02/14/2013 09:05 AM, Warren Kumari wrote:
> BIND now comes with a baked in roots file (in the imaginatively named lib/dns/rootns.c )

Not (at least by that name) in the Redhat/Centos 6.3 bind 9.8.2.

> There is no need for a named.root file, and is just another thing to go wrong…

Is there anything needed in the named.conf to actuate this if you do 
have it?

>
> W
> On Feb 14, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> 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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