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Old 30-11-2003, 11:04   #42
AlexF
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Re: By-pass the current DNS outages.

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Originally Posted by Stuart W
Could still do with a couple of ROOT DNS server IP's......

I have my own DNS server, but would love to tie it to the root to solve all the stupid NTL nonsence.
The root servers won't do you any good unless your server is recursive. The root servers don't know the answers, they just refer you to a server that does. That server probably won't know either, so it too will refer you... and so on until you eventually get the answer.

See http://www.ntcanuck.com/ for a recursive server that runs on NT-based Windows. It imagine it is supplied with a "hint" file containing the root server names and IP addresses. But in case not:

E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 192.203.230.10
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 128.8.10.90
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 198.41.0.4
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 128.63.2.53
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 192.33.4.12
G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 192.112.36.4
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 192.5.5.241
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 128.9.0.107
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 192.58.128.30
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 193.0.14.129
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 198.32.64.12
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 202.12.27.33
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 192.36.148.17
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