Thanks to all who answered. I was looking for the named.root file for my servers. It doesn't change very often, but it did change fairly recently, enough to break a couple of lookups. Curtis Matt Zito said:

The actual root zone is at:

ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/

But if you mean the GTLD zones that used to be part of the root, then:

http://www.verisign-grs.com/tld/

and if you mean just the list of the root servers, then:

"dig . ns"

should give you what you're looking for.

Thanks, Matt

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-----Original Message----- From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:curtis@maurand.com] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 5:05 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: root zone file

Anyone know where I can obtain the latest and greatest? I just tried ftp.icann.org to no avail (host not found.) which is where I used to get them. Thanks in advance Curtis