Implementing Views : root and loopback

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Dec 10 16:32:34 UTC 2002


Cricket Liu wrote:

> Kevin Darcy wrote:
> > My guess is that you don't really need to define the root zone in
> > your views if you all you want to do is use the Internet root
> > nameservers. This is because named will use a compiled-in set of
> > root-nameserver information if nothing is specified (surprisingly, a
> > quick check of _DNS_and_BIND_, 4th Edition doesn't reveal anything
> > about this fallback behavior).
>
> See the footnote on p. 71 in the fourth edition.

My faith is restored! :-)

                                                                    -
Kevin




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