Some hints on DNS config?

[Kimi Ostro]

On 6/29/05, Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> What part don't you get? The "hints" file is required by an iterative
> resolver for root-zone information (it needs to know, at a minimum,
> about the root zone, if it is to have any hope of following the
> delgations down from there to resolve other names). The
> 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa zone (or 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa or other variants)
> is not strictly necessary, but a nice convenience so that the box can
> resolve its own loopback address to something reasonable.
>=20
>=20
>                                              - Kevin
>=20

why a caching-only nameserver would need to know more then just the root zo=
nes?

not particularly sure how to implement this to be honest.

Thanx any-way!
--=20
Kimi