Talk:.root

message: The article says that "no explanation of the purpose of .root has been
given". But the reason for adding it is very simple: to check that the
root zone file was properly loaded. It allows a monitor to query the
nameservers and be sure that all the root zone file was loaded
(the traditional  zone file format does not detect a
truncated file because there is no end marker).
S. Bortzmeyer
This was maybe done earlier but today you can verify the zone file via signed hash sums.
--Calestyo 21:58, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The aim is obvious 

message: The word plenus is Latin for (roughly) "enough". I imagine that should suffice, in context, to explain the use of plenus as a return to a dig / nslookup query for the notional "end of file" marker. Paul.w.bennett 22:55, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The meaning or purpose of ''plenus'' 

message: It doesn't seem to exist any more:
> dig vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root. any @a.root-servers.net
; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root. any @a.root-servers.net
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 27876
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root. IN ANY
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       86400   IN      SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2006042100 1800 900 604800 86400
;; Query time: 107 msec
;; SERVER: 198.41.0.4#53(198.41.0.4)
;; WHEN: Fri Apr 21 16:56:06 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 134
* I've updated this - according to the InterNIC zone, vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root has been replaced with just vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record, i.e. without the .root. I believe this is the first time that there has been a universally resolvable domain name *without* a TLD. --ajdlinux 23:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * It seems to be back again: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root&type=TXT and ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/root.zone.gz Matthewr2 1 23:58, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

text: When you type those strings into your browser, you're searching the web (usually by using Google but it varies) for them and it's returning the top result for each one. You need to type the commands into a UNIX-based machine at the shell prompt, to execute the "dig" program. edd 09:46, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In my browser (Mozilla SeaMonkey), I get a Google results page with all of the above sites listed. *Dan T.* 11:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I'll use whatever browser I feel like using.  If you want to know more, you might try looking at the entry for SeaMonkey.  As for UNIX, it's an operating system (or a family of operating sytems, actually); you might want to look at its entry too; Linux as well for a popular, similar, system.  The command line that was discussed is not a "browser", but an interface to the operating system. *Dan T.* 11:58, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misc

message: It's back again! Updated accordingly. --ajdlinux 10:27, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  .root is back!?!? 

message: The article says:
 The existence of the record was observed with the domain information groper
 (dig) utility by querying for a TXT record for the domain name:
 
  dig vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root
 
 This entry returned the word "plenus", which is Latin for full or complete.
I tried this query on my computer, in GNOME terminal:
 $ dig vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root txt
 
 ; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root txt
 ;; global options: +cmd
 ;; Got answer:
 ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 55885
 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
 
 ;; QUESTION SECTION:
 ;vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root. IN TXT
 
 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
 .			957	IN	SOA	a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2012121501 1800 900 604800 86400
 
 ;; Query time: 1 msec
 ;; SERVER: 93.100.1.3#53(93.100.1.3)
 ;; WHEN: Sun Dec 16 05:44:55 2012
 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 134
No word "plenus" is found in the output. Gamliel Fishkin (talk) 02:33, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  output of a dig query