forwarding non-domain queries

[Nick Tait]

On 10/12/2024 12:25, Greg Choules via bind-users wrote:
> Actually you don't need it anyway, even if you are doing recursion, as 
> Internet root hints have been built into BIND for many years. The only 
> reason you would need a hint zone is to define custom roots for a 
> private network that is *completely* isolated from the Internet. Your 
> corporate network does not meet that criterion because your corporate 
> DNS servers will be answering names from the Internet. Therefore, lose 
> the hint zone.

The only consideration here is that every so often a change might be 
made to the root DNS servers, and based on past experience it has taken 
many months for the compiled-in list of root servers within BIND to be 
updated, which results in warnings being logged by BIND. Having a hint 
file allows you to update that file - either manually or by upgrading a 
distro package (e.g. "dns-root-data" on Ubuntu) - to eliminate those 
warnings.

Nick.