[ On Wed, September 16, 1998 at 09:37:55 (+0100), Paul Thornton wrote: ]
Subject: COM zone and serials
Need I say more? More than half of them are running at least a day old, and the majority of those are running two days old.
kate$ dig @a.root-servers.net SOA com. | grep serial 1998091500 ; serial [[... and on and on with many similar commands ...]]
FYI the host(1) command offers a MUCH simpler way of checking these sorts of things. Just a single command, and a single option "host -C zone" (or add '-u' to do the query/queries with TCP). IMNSHO host(1) is far easier to use, and far more versatile, than any other DNS query tool. The latest version of host(1) can always be found here: ftp://ftp.nikhef.nl/pub/network/host.tar.Z 14:44 [1292] $ host -C com. com NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400) com NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400) com NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091300 1800 900 604800 86400) !!! C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET have different serial for com com NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400) !!! D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET have different serial for com com NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400) com NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400) com NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091300 1800 900 604800 86400) !!! F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET have different serial for com com NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400) !!! G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET have different serial for com com NS J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400) com NS K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET Nameserver K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET not responding com SOA record not found at K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET, try again com NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET (1998091500 1800 900 604800 86400) -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>