Upcoming changes in Debian/Ubuntu BIND 9 package

[Ondřej Surý]

> On 31. 1. 2025, at 15:17, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at ipinc.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>  zones.rfc1918 configuration files are going to be removed in favor of empty-zones yes; (which is default)
> 
> Just curious what the reason for removing the 1918 zone files is?

It is on the very same line you just quoted:

https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#built-in-empty-zones

The file in debian was incomplete while the default built-in empty zones are much longer list. There's no point
in maintaining both lists at the same time when the built-in works just fine.

Ondřej
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