From DNS & Bind, 3rd Edition p.68 : "Besides your local information, the name server also needs to know where the name servers are for the root domain. This information must be retrieved from the Internet host ftp.rs.internic.net (198.41.0.7). Use anonymous ftp to retrieve the file named.root from the domain subdirectory. (named.root is the same file we've been calling db.cache. Just rename named.root to db.cache after you've retrieved it.)" And from p. 141: "A good practice is to check your db.cache file every month or two. In Chapter 4, we told you to get the servers by ftping to ftp.rs.internic.net. And that's probably your best method to keep current. If you have on your system a copy of dig, a utility that works a lot like nslookup and is included in the BIND distribution, you can retrieve the current list of root just by running: % dig @a.root-servers.net . ns > db.cache " Hopefully this helps. Pick up a copy. Read it. Ignore the crap about BIND 4, you shouldn't be running it anyway. :) On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 10:59:31PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:38:32PM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > > hi > > > > i'm running my own dns server from my home i would like to update my > > db.root file. where do i have to go get an update version of this > > file? is this information available from the debian web site? > > dig @rs.networksolutions.com . ns > db.root -- Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
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