COM zone and serials

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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
kate$ dig @b.root-servers.net SOA com. | grep serial
                        1998091500 ; serial
kate$ dig @c.root-servers.net SOA com. | grep serial
                        1998091300 ; serial
kate$ dig @d.root-servers.net SOA com. | grep serial
                        1998091400 ; serial
kate$ dig @e.root-servers.net SOA com. | grep serial
                        1998091300 ; serial
kate$ dig @f.root-servers.net SOA com. | grep serial
                        1998091300 ; serial
kate$ dig @g.root-servers.net SOA com. | grep serial
                        1998091300 ; serial
kate$ dig @h.root-servers.net SOA com. | grep serial
                        1998091500 ; serial
kate$ dig @i.root-servers.net SOA com. | grep serial
                        1998091300 ; serial
kate$ dig @j.gtld-servers.net SOA com. | grep serial
                        1998091500 ; serial
kate$ dig @k.gtld-servers.net SOA com. | grep serial
                        1998091300 ; serial

Paul

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[ 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)