Hello: Received many great responses, like to share the following: ====================================== >From Bob Windsor, Dale Ghent, and Mathew Sams: You can always get the latest root hints file by executing: dig @a.root-servers.net ns . > named.root It rarely changes, so it's totally conceivable that the last change was january 2004. ======================================-= >From Bill Williams: nslookup -query=any ROOT-SERVERS.net ROOT-SERVERS.net origin = a.ROOT-SERVERS.net mail addr = nstld.verisign-grs.com serial = 2004012900 refresh = 14400 retry = 7200 expire = 1209600 minimum = 3600000 The SOA date (serial = 2004012900) would indicate that it is. ============================================ >From Crist Clark: Yes and no. But it really doesn't matter. As long as a few of the root servers are OK, your name server should be able to get the latest root zone from them. That's why it is called a "hints" file. Your server just needs some hints where to start looking for the root zone. You have the latest hints file. However if you look at the root zone, $ nslookup -type=soa . You should find the latest serial to be 2005112701. But the root zone contains a lot besides the hints, delegations for the gTLDs, ccTLDs, etc. plus all of their glue. =================================== Thanks again. Warren _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Nov 28 16:42:23 2005
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