Bind8 does every 4sec a DNS-lookup

[Barry Margolin]

In article <39508386.A11E7757 at at.siemens.de>,
Christian Birkmeier  <Christian.Birkmeier at at.siemens.de> wrote:
>Ok, does it mean that my ns do on every time I start it this querry to
>confirm the list and then be quiet?!?

Yes.

>I usually shutdown and restart the server every day. So I the ns
>querry´s every day for that list.

You shouldn't need to restart every day unless its cache has grown too
large for the memory of your system.

>I think the best way for me in this situation is to remove the root.hint
>entry and keep only the forwarders entry. Is that possible and a good
>possibitity?

I think this will work as you wish in 8.2.2; I believe older versions had a
problem if there was no hints file.

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