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Re: Repotting report

  • From: Joe Abley
  • Date: Mon Feb 04 17:28:01 2008



On 4-Feb-2008, at 16:05, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

And the new named.root has arrived:

ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root

I seem to think it has become fairly widespread practice for people to refresh their named.root files (or whatever they decide to call it) using something like this:


$ dig . NS >named.root

This worked before today. From today, it still works (in the sense that it will still result in a named.root file which is sufficiently complete in most situations for a nameserver to be able to send a priming query) but it won't contain a complete set of glue.

So, if you're in the habit of doing

dig . NS >named.root

you would ideally change that habit to something like

curl -O ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root

instead. (Incidentally, for me, rs.internic.net is giving "530 Login incorrect" after PASS when logging in using "ftp" or "anonymous").


Joe