About root zones

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jan 2, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Barry Margolin wrote:
> If the system resolver is good enough for every other application 
> running on the system, it should be good enough for BIND.
> 
> Why not at least allow this as an option?

The system resolver will happily provide answers based upon data from /etc/hosts, YP/NIS, and LDAP which have no relationship to what is in the DNS.

Every other application on the system is probably not a DNS nameserver.  Case in point: should dig use the system resolver for an /etc/hosts entry and pretend that there was an A and PTR record in the DNS?

Regards,
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-Chuck