Re: [webmin-l] Root servers

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 06:48, Cory wrote:
> I setup my nameserver and i was going to put in the information to
> pull down the files needed from the TLD root server.  when i go to the
> root zone it says re-download root servers.  But how to does webmin
> know where the root servers are because i didnt tell it which of the
> 13 servers i wanted to download from nor did i give it the IP
> address.  Am i missing a step here.

There are 13 root servers, but they are all listed in a single file.
This file actually comes with Webmin, or can be downloaded automatically
during the BIND module setup process.

You don't generally need to worry about re-downloading, as the root
servers very rarely change..

 - Jamie