DNS, root.hints, argh!

[kent at songbird.com]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:11:19PM -0600, mark wrote:
> I've tried using dig, I've tried wget from internic, and no matter how I get
> the file, and there are some differences, for my root.hints, when I run
> named-checkzone . root.hints
> 
> I always get:
> 
> zone ./IN: could not find NS and/or SOA records
> zone ./IN: has 0 SOA records
> 
> What's wrong?

Exactly what it says.  The root.hints file is not a zone file.  Though there
format similarities, a zone file requires an SOA record, and the hints file 
doesn't have one.

> root.hints:
> ;       This file holds the information on root name servers needed to
> ;       initialize cache of Internet domain name servers
> ;       (e.g. reference this file in the "cache  .  <file>"
> ;       configuration file of BIND domain name servers).
> ;
> ;       This file is made available by InterNIC
> ;       under anonymous FTP as
> ;           file                /domain/named.root
> ;           on server           FTP.INTERNIC.NET
> ;       -OR-                    RS.INTERNIC.NET
> ;
> ;       last update:    Feb 04, 2008
> ;       related version of root zone:   2008020400
> ;
> ; formerly NS.INTERNIC.NET
> ;
> ;.                                IN  NS
> .                        3600000  IN  NS    A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     198.41.0.4
> A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:503:BA3E::2:30
> ;
> ; formerly NS1.ISI.EDU
> ;
> .                        3600000      NS    B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     192.228.79.201
> ;
> ; formerly C.PSI.NET
> ;
> .                        3600000      NS    C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     192.33.4.12
> ;
> ; formerly TERP.UMD.EDU
> ;
> .                        3600000      NS    D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     128.8.10.90
> ;
> ; formerly NS.NASA.GOV
> ;
> .                        3600000      NS    E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     192.203.230.10
> ;
> ; formerly NS.ISC.ORG
> ;
> .                        3600000      NS    F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     192.5.5.241
> F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:500:2f::f
> ;
> ; formerly NS.NIC.DDN.MIL
> ;
> .                        3600000      NS    G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     192.112.36.4
> ;
> ; formerly AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL
> ;
> .                        3600000      NS    H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     128.63.2.53
> H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:500:1::803f:235
> ;
> ; formerly NIC.NORDU.NET
> ;
> .                        3600000      NS    I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     192.36.148.17
> ;
> ; operated by VeriSign, Inc.
> ;
> .                        3600000      NS    J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     192.58.128.30
> J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:503:C27::2:30
> ;
> ; operated by RIPE NCC
> ;
> .                        3600000      NS    K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     193.0.14.129
> K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:7fd::1
> ;
> ; operated by ICANN
> ;
> .                        3600000      NS    L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     199.7.83.42
> ;
> ; operated by WIDE
> ;
> .                        3600000      NS    M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     202.12.27.33
> M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:dc3::35
> ; End of File
> 
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