Bind and getting named.root

[M.W.Chang]

likely. can you do it at the host that connects directly to your ISP?

>>wget ftp://internic.net/domain/named.root
> Thats what I've got but it just hangs.  I wonder, this machine is coming from behind a NAT'd gateway, gould that be 
> the issue?

just type the content intot he file as specified.

> Also, while I have you Doug, what is this /var/named/pz/127.0.0 file?  I typed it all in as illustrated but its not making 
> any sense to me.  Could someone clarify this for me?  (Dumb question of the day I am sure)