Problems with named default configuration in 6-STABLE

[Volker]

On 07/17/07 09:45, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 09:39:59 Volker wrote:
>> The root zone MUST be of type hint. You do not want to be a slave of
>> the root... don't you? ;)
> 
> Actually, I also thought that this is strange, but in a way, this is pretty 
> sensible, as the only thing you cache (more immediately than by making it a 
> hint zone) being a slave for the root is the name servers used for the 
> different first-level zones, and the root servers allow AXFR requests (which 
> I just verified), so this shouldn't fail.
> 

hmm... the root servers should not allow public AXFR. As I've verified
using:


dig @a.root-servers.net axfr .

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> @a.root-servers.net axfr .
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
; Transfer failed.

it still doesn't. How have you checked?

Volker