4.1.6 named.ca file

The named.ca file establishes the names of root servers and lists their addresses. If your network is connected to the Internet, named.ca lists the Internet name servers, if not it lists the root domain name servers for your local network. The named daemon cycles through the list of servers until it contacts one of them. It then obtains from that server the current list of root servers, which it uses to update named.ca.

Root server names are indicated in the NS record and addresses in the A record.

This file is made available by InterNIC under anonymous FTP as:

;          file                /domain/named.cache
;           on server           FTP.INTERNIC.NET
;       -OR-                    RS.INTERNIC.NET

To update the named.ca file, the same can be copied at /var/named/ on ENUM servers with root ID.