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:

>> 
>> 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.

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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