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[Günter Grodotzki <guenter AT grodotzki.ph>]

ah thanks Jeff :)

On 1/4/11 4:33 AM, Jeff Taylor wrote:
> On 01/03/2011 09:45 AM, Günter Grodotzki wrote:
> > also I get following error:
> >
> > $ dig dns.opennic.glue axfr
> >
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> dns.opennic.glue axfr
> > ;; global options: +cmd
> > ; Transfer failed.
> You need to specify the target server... any of the T1's should work.
>
> $ dig @ns2.opennic.glue dns.opennic.glue axfr
>
> > Until now I would just do:
> >
> > $ dig ns0.opennic.glue
> >
> > And add those IPs manually in my root.hint - can't I do this anymore?
> > I think IPs shouldn't be changing that often - and if it does we have
> > a dns-operations ML for that ;)
> Again you need to specify the server that you want to query, and be a
> little more specific on what answer you're trying to get...
>
> $ dig NS opennic.glue @ns0.opennic.glue
>
> If you want a cleaned up method suitable for scripts, the following will
> give you JUST the list of T1 addresses...
>
> $ dig NS . @ns0.opennic.glue | grep "IN[[:space:]]A" | awk '{print $5}'
>
> Please note that I just made an update to the root hints file today, and
> have removed NS4.opennic.glue from the root zone. That server is still
> suitable for resolving OpenNic TLDs, however it has been returning
> verisign servers for the root, and causing inconsistent results for the
> end-users.
>
> If you wish to keep your hints file automatically in sync, you can set
> it up as a slave zone rather than a hints zone. The following applies to
> BIND, perhaps you can modify to suit your software?
>
> zone "." in {
> type slave;
> file "tld-root";
> masters { 75.127.96.89; <tier1-server>; <tier1-server>; };
> };
>
>
> Hopefully some of this will be helpful to your questions?
>
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