On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:15:00PM -0500, Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote a message of 24 lines which said: > All BIND nameservers need access to root zone information But not always locally: of the BIND server is set up with forwarders and forward-only, it does not need a root zone or a hint file, no?