Some hints on DNS config?

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jul 4 15:17:03 UTC 2005


In article <daacfi$4kr$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Kimi Ostro <kimimeister at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

The 127.in-addr.arpa domain isn't delegated by the root servers.  By 
convention, everyone installs it on their own nameservers.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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