DNS, root.hints, argh!

[mark]

kent at songbird.com wrote:
> 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.
<snip>
Oh - so named-checkzone is *not* the correct script to use to check if I've got
root.hints correct? Is there something else, or just what I pull from internic?

	mark