Advice on Bind 8

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Fri Dec 26 00:19:25 UTC 2003


> 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?

	It still needs to root servers to fill in the authority section
	of answers to which closer authority has expired.
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