DNS Root Server List Query

Dan Track dan.track at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 12:27:14 UTC 2008


Hi

Thanks to everyone who responded. My curiosity is temporarily satisified :)

Dan

On Feb 5, 2008 12:06 PM, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
>
> > Dan Track wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I'm curious as to how a fedora DNS server functions on a basic level.
> >> As far as I am aware when a DNS server queries a domain name and it
> >> doesn't have it in its cache then it will begin a query from the root
> >> name servers and then go down the DNS tree until it gets to its final
> >> result. My question is then where in fedora is this list of root
> >> nameservers?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Dan
> >
> > There should be a "named.ca" file that contains the hints cache for the
> > root name servers.
> >
>
>
> and if it doesnt exist create a new one.
>
> dig +bufsize=1200 +norec NS . @a.root-servers.net > named.ca
>
> (This includes IPV6  you will need the bufsize for EDNS reasons,
> the normal buffer is too small)
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Res
>
> mysql> update auth set Framed-IP-Address='127.0.0.127' where user= 'troll';
>
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