Building a fresh named.root

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 02/15/2013 03:40 PM, Chris Buxton wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> I will do some more testing with this to see if I can indeed remove the root.hint includes.  But I have a question.  I have tried to dig in my server for the root info like you can a root server, but obviously this is not the way to do it, as I get an empty list eventhough I know I can resolve names that I am not authoritative for.
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>> I tried
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>> dig +bufsize=4096 . ns @localhost
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>> (and without the bufsize) and it comes back with a warning that recursion requested but not available and an empty list.  More interestingly is that in /var/log/messages it shows:
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>> named[2872]: client ::1#57049: view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
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>> I would think this should go to my internal view?  I even put 127.0.0.1 into my match-clients/destinations network list and it is still using the external view.
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> The hostname 'localhost' can mean different things to different computers. It probably means ::1 (IPv6 localhost) in this case. Try explicitly specifying the IP address rather than using the hostname.

Appearently so.  Very interesting.  using my IP address and I got a nice 
return back of the root servers.  Just like I get from the 'real ones'.  
And I have commented out the hint stub, so I am good on this matter.  
One more item checked off.

thanks