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<br>Running bind rooted on FC 16 using the standard package.<br><br>The ca file is located in /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.ca<br><br>The hints are not built in. <br>[shawn@www ~]$ strings /usr/sbin/named | grep A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET<br>returns nothing.<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br><br><br><br>Bind is: <br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:44:02 -0500<br>> From: rgm@htt-consult.com<br>> To: dot@dotat.at<br>> Subject: Re: Building a fresh named.root<br>> CC: bind-users@lists.isc.org<br>> <br>> <br>> On 02/14/2013 10:18 AM, Tony Finch wrote:<br>> > Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> wrote:<br>> >> More AAAA records 1/3/2013 than in the named.ca stub which IF my version has<br>> >> it builtin raises the question about keeping current at this time in the<br>> >> Internet (and trusting Redhat to roll in new builtin hints as they go).<br>> > No need to worry. They are only hints, and named uses them to get the<br>> > current list of root name servers at startup.<br>> <br>> Thanks. Now I just have to find out from the Centos list if my version <br>> has them built in.<br>> <br>> > Even if they are 15 years<br>> > out of date it will still work, because the root name servers do not<br>> > change very often.<br>> <br>> And with anycast they will probably not change until IPv9...<br>> <br>> Check out RFC 1606.<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list<br>> <br>> bind-users mailing list<br>> bind-users@lists.isc.org<br>> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users<br></div> </div></body>
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