Re: [Sheflug] Re: My First Post - Connecting Linux to the Internet

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Chris J/#6 wrote:

> > Dind is a pain - you need to set up a hints file to find the rootservers
> > and if you are using forwarders you still need to find out the addresses
> > of your ISPs DNS servers.
> 
> It's not that bad ... you don't really need forwarders, not if you use the 
> root cache (ie, the hints) file that is available from various sources, 
> including this list if you ask nicely :)

And it's easy to update, too...

dig . in ns > root.hints (or whatever filename you want)

Cheers

Richard

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