Bug 464911

Summary:	bind is missing up2date root.named
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Oliver Falk <oliver>
Component:	bind	Assignee:	Adam Tkac <atkac>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Oliver Falk 2008-10-01 11:03:14 UTC

named checkhints spots the following:

named-sdb[21428]: checkhints: L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET/A (199.7.83.42) missing from hi
nts
named-sdb[21428]: checkhints: L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET/A (198.32.64.12) extra record i
n hints

The easiest solution is to download named.root from internic. Please note, that the included root is from 2004 and the actual version is from 2008. See diff:

[root@malz named]# diff root named.root 
12,14c12,13
< ;       last update:    Jan 29, 2004
< ;       related version of root zone:   2004012900
< ;
---
> ;       last update:    Feb 04, 2008
> ;       related version of root zone:   2008020400
19a19
> A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:503:BA3E::2:30
44a45
> F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:500:2f::f
54a56
> H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:500:1::803f:235
64a67
> J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:503:C27::2:30
69a73
> K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:7fd::1
74c78
< L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     198.32.64.12
---
> L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     199.7.83.42
79a84
> M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:dc3::35

I could also imagine a cronjob that updates the root file on a regular basis (eg. once a month). What do you thing?

Comment 1 Adam Tkac 2008-10-01 14:12:12 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)

File /var/named/named.ca is used as "root hints" file, not /var/named/named.root. named.ca is up2date.

> 
> I could also imagine a cronjob that updates the root file on a regular basis
> (eg. once a month). What do you thing?

It is not needed because root zone is not changed so often.

Comment 2 Oliver Falk 2008-10-01 14:21:57 UTC

Oh. Then this is a very old config from myself (migrated from release to release...) - sorry for bugging! :-(