Can bind works without defining root servers

Andrew Latham lathama at gmail.com
Tue Aug 15 15:48:43 UTC 2017


Read about it at
https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git;a=blob;f=lib/dns/rootns.c;h=d86d0172d10625050ff1938c1869ce28921a1226;hb=HEAD

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:29 AM, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) <hck at utk.edu>
wrote:

> How does Bind update the root servers? Does it go out and check, or is a
> release made for each change?
>
>
> --
> Hal King  - hck at utk.edu
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> On 8/15/17, 11:02, "bind-users on behalf of Alan Clegg" <
> bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org on behalf of alan at clegg.com> wrote:
>
>     Root hints have been built in forever.  (and that's "forever" in
>     Internet years)
>
>     On 8/15/17 10:58 AM, Duleep Thilakarathne wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I can observe, bind can resolve host names without following entry
> in
>     > named.conf. could anyone help me to understand this default behavior.
>     >
>     >
>     > zone "." {
>     >   type hint;
>     >   file "root.servers";
>     > };
>     >
>     > regards
>     > DT
>     >
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