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Subject: Re: Named goes wobbly after a while
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Hi All

Well, I think I have fixed things by doing the following:

Put the list of root name servers from FTP.RS.INTERNIC.NET:/domain/named.root
where it ought to be.

Edited db.soa to refer to the right machine instead of a nonexistant 
machine.

Thanks all for the help.

> > Hi John
> > 
> > > This is the file that David referred to as named.root. It should have a
> > > list of all the root name servers. You can get the latest and greatest
> > > at FTP.RS.INTERNIC.NET:/domain/named.root
> > 
> > I think the idea was (from Pieter at Aztec, our ISP)  was not to use 
> > that list as it would be too slow and just to use aztec as a root.
> > 
> I think you should still put the file from internic in and then also
> add a forwarders line in your named.boot file. Use the ip address of
> the aztec nameserver. Something like:
> 
> forwarders	x.y.z.a
> 
> John
> -- 
> John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za

Regards,

Irvine Short

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