"Forrest W. Christian" wrote:

I just came across the fact that one of the root servers (G) has a stale .com zone. (Serial number from 3/10). Of course, my primary DNS server seems to prefer G (or any other root server with a problem for that matter).

You can add the following to recent versions of BIND 8 to avoid this problem. server 192.112.36.4 { bogus yes; }; Yes, that begs the question of how this could be allowed to happen/continue/etc..... Enjoy, Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix"