<div dir="ltr">Read about it at <a href="https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git;a=blob;f=lib/dns/rootns.c;h=d86d0172d10625050ff1938c1869ce28921a1226;hb=HEAD">https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git;a=blob;f=lib/dns/rootns.c;h=d86d0172d10625050ff1938c1869ce28921a1226;hb=HEAD</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:29 AM, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hck@utk.edu" target="_blank">hck@utk.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">How does Bind update the root servers? Does it go out and check, or is a release made for each change?<br>
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Hal King - <a href="mailto:hck@utk.edu">hck@utk.edu</a><br>
Systems Administrator<br>
Office of Information Technology<br>
Shared Systems Services<br>
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The University of Tennessee<br>
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2309 Kingston Pk. Knoxville, TN 37996<br>
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On 8/15/17, 11:02, "bind-users on behalf of Alan Clegg" <<a href="mailto:bind-users-bounces@lists.isc.org">bind-users-bounces@lists.isc.<wbr>org</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:alan@clegg.com">alan@clegg.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Root hints have been built in forever. (and that's "forever" in<br>
Internet years)<br>
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On 8/15/17 10:58 AM, Duleep Thilakarathne wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I can observe, bind can resolve host names without following entry in<br>
> named.conf. could anyone help me to understand this default behavior.<br>
><br>
><br>
> zone "." {<br>
> type hint;<br>
> file "root.servers";<br>
> };<br>
><br>
> regards<br>
> DT<br>
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