Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ3] Problems with root hints

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Per M Knutsen wrote:

> > > My root hints file is deleted everytime I save DNS info via the GUI.
> 
> gsh/flash22 wrote:
> 
> > Just name your root.hints to db.cache, the db.cache file is in the
> > standard zone format, except it has no SOA header because you aren't
> > authorative for the root servers....
> 
> Thanks for the pointer. I just want to be clear about this before I do any
> major ****ups. The db.cache files contains headers for all domains
> configured on the nameserver (see below). Do I need these headers in the
> final hints file, or do I need *only* the ROOT servers and nothing else?

If it's being loaded as a hints file, ala bind 8 , it should have only
root servers in it, note that the older method , particularly for
secondaries was sometimes to dump the nameserver contents back into this
file to help it startup faster, bind 8+ has different caching methods....

In any case, i have no clue why you have in-addr entries in it, are you
secondary for those PTR records? it may be old leftover stuff, i am gonna
assume you upgraded bind since you are using ndc...

As an aside, you seem to be not in the usa, there are tweaks to the root
server list you may want to do to help the server start faster\, as the
A-Z root servers are actually in the us and will have to reflect the first
few queries back to your side of the pond to tell your nameserver where
your country specific root servers are, tho it's not all that big a
deal...



gsh