Thanks for the clarity. I tried to resolve some top level domains NS and still getting high latency.
$ dig ae ns @localhost ;; omitting ;; ANSWER SECTION: ae. 3600 IN NS ns2.aedns.ae. ae. 3600 IN NS ns4.apnic.net. ae. 3600 IN NS nsext-pch.aedns.ae. ae. 3600 IN NS ns1.aedns.ae. ;; Query time: 152 msec $ dig art ns @localhost ;; omitting ;; ANSWER SECTION: art. 164969 IN NS b.nic.art. art. 164969 IN NS c.nic.art. art. 164969 IN NS a.nic.art. art. 164969 IN NS d.nic.art. ;; Query time: 244 msec -- Regards Jahanzeb Arshad VP Operations On Tue, 2021-12-21 at 07:49 +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 10:28:53AM +0500, Jahanzeb Arshad via Pdns- > users wrote: > > > Greeting, > > > > I am having trouble in getting zonetocache working for the root > > zone. I > > am using PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. > > > > I have following in my /etc/powerdns/recursor.lua configuration: > > > > dofile("/usr/share/pdns-recursor/lua-config/rootkeys.lua") > > zoneToCache(".", "url", > > "https://www.internic.net/domain/root.zone", { > > refreshPeriod = 0 }) > > > > > > When I start the server I get the following message in the logs: > > > > Dec 21 09:17:13 server.nayatel.com pdns-recursor[19209]: > > msg="Loaded > > zone into cache" subsystem="ztc" level=0 ts="1640060233.959" > > refresh="0" zone="." > > > > > > But when I do dig for the records in the root.zone I get high Query > > time. On subsequent queries I get 0 msec time which means it was > > cached > > after I did query for the record. > > > > $ dig b.nic.aaa > > > > ;; omitting output > > > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > > b.nic.aaa. 86400 IN A 37.209.194.9 > > > > ;; Query time: 512 msec > > > > > > -- > > Regards > > Jahanzeb Arshad > > The root zone has no autoritative data for b.nic.aaa, only > non-authoritative data. Digging for b.nic.aaa asks for authoritiative > data. > > Non-autoritative data *will* be used to get the addresses of > namservers of delegated zones. > > Try asking your server for NS aaa. This query only uses root-zone > data. You should get an immediate response, including additional > data. > > -Otto
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