root hints

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Wed Jan 26 11:49:09 UTC 2011


In message <20110126003702.C16856 at gwyn.tux.org>, Joseph S D Yao writes:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:20:18AM +0800, pyh at mail.nsbeta.info wrote:
> > 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> >  From what version of bind we won't include the root hints file in 
> > named.conf? Since the bind server has been including it inherently. 
> 
> 
> I could be wrong, but I think that all V9 and even all V8 had this
> "feature".  I include them anyway - because sometimes I need to change
> what's hidden in the program.
> 
> With current V9 you can 'cp /dev/null $directory/named.conf' and have
> 'named' work fine.  But I have only done this once, just for the
> experience.

You don't even need the copy.  "named -c /dev/null" will do the job
if you just want a recursive server for the local network.
 
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