rolling my own hints file

[Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)]

Running Bind 9.18.18 on Ubuntu 22.04

We would like to use root servers within our organization rather than the actual root servers.
I updated the hints file with the names and IPs of our servers, but we seem to still access the official root servers.

Wondering how I ignore the internal/build-in hints and have my own file.

Wondering if replacing the IP addresses in the db.cache file with a round-robin of my internal IP addresses isn't the answer.
Not elegant but perhaps would work?

Is there a supported way to do what I want to do - we do not want an forwarding only server, we do serve a good number of internal statis and dynamic zones but also want to resolve non-domain addresses or addresses we lack forwarder zones for from a 'root' source.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.root-servers.net.     518400  IN      A       198.41.0.4
b.root-servers.net.     518400  IN      A       170.247.170.2
c.root-servers.net.     518400  IN      A       192.33.4.12

Thanks for your help and suggestions,
Brian


Brian Cuttler, System and Network Administration
Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health
Albany, NY 12201 POB 509
Brian.Cuttler at Health.NY.gov<mailto:Brian.Cuttler at Health.NY.gov>
518 486-1697

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