Building a fresh named.root
Alan Clegg
alan at clegg.com
Fri Feb 15 21:01:33 UTC 2013
On Feb 15, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
If recursion is allowed on 127.0.0.1 (and your non-loopback IPv4 addresses), you may want to permit it over IPv6 as well.
Might save some debugging time when you enable externally visible IPv6.
AlanC
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