BIND not updating the root servers

[Bill Christensen]

Replying to myself....

On further inspection (examining the results of what files BIND installs 
using port contents bind9)  I'm seeing a Jan 3, 2013 version of the root 
servers in /opt/local/var/named/db.cache.dist.  And the June 2, 2014 
version is at /opt/local/var/named/db.cache .  I have no idea if it's 
really in use though, and WebMin at least thinks it's not.

Any pointers appreciated.

Thanks.

On 8/15/14 10:01 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently noticed that the MacPorts version of BIND (I'm running the
> latest - BIND 9.10.0-P2) is apparently not updating the root servers.
>
> Looking at the logs to correct another problem, I'm seeing:
>
> 14-Aug-2014 13:14:08.142 info: host unreachable resolving
> 'd.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53
> 14-Aug-2014 13:14:08.215 info: host unreachable resolving
> 'b.gtld-servers.net/A/IN': 2001:503:231d::2:30#53
> 14-Aug-2014 13:14:08.220 info: host unreachable resolving
> 'c.gtld-servers.net/A/IN': 2001:503:231d::2:30#53
> 14-Aug-2014 13:14:08.522 info: host unreachable resolving
> 'd.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:503:83eb::2:31#53
> 14-Aug-2014 13:14:08.595 info: host unreachable resolving
> 'c.gtld-servers.net/A/IN': 2001:503:a83e::2:31#53
> 14-Aug-2014 13:14:08.793 info: host unreachable resolving
> 'b.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:503:c27::2:30#53
> 14-Aug-2014 13:14:08.794 info: host unreachable resolving
> 'b.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:dc3::35#53
> 14-Aug-2014 13:14:08.795 info: host unreachable resolving
> 'c.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:503:c27::2:30#53
> 14-Aug-2014 13:14:08.796 info: host unreachable resolving
> 'c.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:dc3::35#53
>
>
>
> The root servers file that I've apparently been running off of hasn't
> changed since 2008:
>
>
> ;       This file is made available by InterNIC
> ;       under anonymous FTP as
> ;           file                /domain/named.root
> ;           on server FTP.INTERNIC.NET
> ;       -OR-                    RS.INTERNIC.NET
> ;
> ;       last update:    Feb 04, 2008
> ;       related version of root zone:   2008020400
>
>
> The current version, available at:
>
> ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root
>
> was last updated on June 2, 2014.
>
> How (and where) do I insert that?  I pulled the above file via WebMin
> config backup, but it doesn't tell me where that root file lives.