DNS recursion on Dapper's BIND9

[James Gray]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Fahrlander" <brian at fahrlander.net>

    I'm hoping to find someone else with master zones (other than for
localhost) and compare notes before I take this further...

Master zones for who exactly?  Are you referring to the root name servers (ie, your "hints" file for bind)?

$ dig > /path/to/dns/zones/root.hints
$ cat /path/to/dns/zones/root.hints

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>>
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34831
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 6

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.                              IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
.                       394311  IN      NS      f.root-servers.net.
.                       394311  IN      NS      g.root-servers.net.
.                       394311  IN      NS      h.root-servers.net.
.                       394311  IN      NS      i.root-servers.net.
.                       394311  IN      NS      j.root-servers.net.
.                       394311  IN      NS      k.root-servers.net.
.                       394311  IN      NS      l.root-servers.net.
.                       394311  IN      NS      m.root-servers.net.
.                       394311  IN      NS      a.root-servers.net.
.                       394311  IN      NS      b.root-servers.net.
.                       394311  IN      NS      c.root-servers.net.
.                       394311  IN      NS      d.root-servers.net.
.                       394311  IN      NS      e.root-servers.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.root-servers.net.     382309  IN      A       198.41.0.4
b.root-servers.net.     567639  IN      A       192.228.79.201
e.root-servers.net.     387213  IN      A       192.203.230.10
j.root-servers.net.     417975  IN      A       192.58.128.30
k.root-servers.net.     486245  IN      A       193.0.14.129
l.root-servers.net.     397974  IN      A       198.32.64.12

;; Query time: 6 msec
;; SERVER: 130.130.68.1#53(130.130.68.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 30 09:55:56 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 324

It doesn't get much more "master zone" than that.

-- 
James