Building a fresh named.root

[Shawn Bakhtiar]

Running bind rooted on FC 16 using the standard package.

The ca file is located in /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.ca

The hints are not built in. 
[shawn at www ~]$ strings /usr/sbin/named | grep A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
returns nothing.

Centos is RedHat EL (free version) which is a stable version of fedora Core + proprietary extras ?? They may have re-imped bind differently but I doubt it. 

If you build it from source, over a set of installed packages, you may have residual files that came with the packages, but are not relevant to you rebuild.




Bind is: 

> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:44:02 -0500
> From: rgm at htt-consult.com
> To: dot at dotat.at
> Subject: Re: Building a fresh named.root
> CC: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> 
> 
> On 02/14/2013 10:18 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> > Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> >> More AAAA records 1/3/2013 than in the named.ca stub which IF my version has
> >> it builtin raises the question about keeping current at this time in the
> >> Internet (and trusting Redhat to roll in new builtin hints as they go).
> > No need to worry. They are only hints, and named uses them to get the
> > current list of root name servers at startup.
> 
> Thanks.  Now I just have to find out from the Centos list if my version 
> has them built in.
> 
> > Even if they are 15 years
> > out of date it will still work, because the root name servers do not
> > change very often.
> 
> And with anycast they will probably not change until IPv9...
> 
> Check out RFC 1606.
> 
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