Repotting report
Leo Bicknell
bicknell at ufp.org
Mon Feb 4 22:23:48 UTC 2008
In a message written on Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 05:20:20PM -0500, Joe Abley wrote:
> This worked before today. From today, it still works (in the sense
> that it will still result in a named.root file which is sufficiently
> complete in most situations for a nameserver to be able to send a
> priming query) but it won't contain a complete set of glue.
>
> So, if you're in the habit of doing
>
> dig . NS >named.root
>
> you would ideally change that habit to something like
>
> curl -O ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root
If you're willing to use an EDNS0 query, this works:
dig +bufsize=1400 . NS > named.root
I'm not sure if that's better or worse.
--
Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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