Howto update the Root Hints file for BIND Named server in CentOS, Red Hat, or Fedora?
Red Hat, Fedora, or CentOS:
You can retrieve root zone file from ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net.
wget –user=ftp –password=ftp ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/db.cache -O /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.ca
OR if not chrooted
wget –user=ftp –password=ftp ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/db.cache -O /var/named/named.root
Reload rndc to update information, enter:
rndc reload
# dig +bufsize=1200 +norec NS . @a.root-servers.net > /var/named/named.root