COM zone and serials

Wed Sep 16 19:04:39 UTC 1998

[ On Wed, September 16, 1998 at 09:37:55 (+0100), Paul Thornton wrote: ]
> Subject: COM zone and serials
>
> Need I say more?  More than half of them are running at least a day old, and
> the majority of those are running two days old.
>
> kate$ dig @a.root-servers.net SOA com. | grep serial
>                         1998091500      ; serial
>[[... and on and on with many similar commands ...]]

FYI the host(1) command offers a MUCH simpler way of checking these
sorts of things.  Just a single command, and a single option "host -C
zone" (or add '-u' to do the query/queries with TCP).  IMNSHO host(1) is
far easier to use, and far more versatile, than any other DNS query tool.

The latest version of host(1) can always be found here:

	ftp://ftp.nikhef.nl/pub/network/host.tar.Z

14:44 [1292] $ host -C com.
com                     NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET      hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400)
com                     NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET      hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400)
com                     NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET      hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091300 1800 900 604800 86400)
 !!! C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET have different serial for com
com                     NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET      hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400)
 !!! D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET have different serial for com
com                     NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET      hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400)
com                     NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET      hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400)
com                     NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET      hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091300 1800 900 604800 86400)
 !!! F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET have different serial for com
com                     NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET      hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400)
 !!! G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET have different serial for com
com                     NS      J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET      hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400)
com                     NS      K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
Nameserver K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET not responding
com SOA record not found at K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET, try again
com                     NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET      hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400)

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