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<p class="MsoNormal">Running Bind 9.18.18 on Ubuntu 22.04<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We would like to use root servers within our organization rather than the actual root servers.<br>
I updated the hints file with the names and IPs of our servers, but we seem to still access the official root servers.<br>
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Wondering how I ignore the internal/build-in hints and have my own file.<br>
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Wondering if replacing the IP addresses in the db.cache file with a round-robin of my internal IP addresses isn’t the answer.<br>
Not elegant but perhaps would work?<br>
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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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">a.root-servers.net. 518400 IN A 198.41.0.4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">b.root-servers.net. 518400 IN A 170.247.170.2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">c.root-servers.net. 518400 IN A 192.33.4.12<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your help and suggestions,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brian<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Brian Cuttler, System and Network Administration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Albany, NY 12201 POB 509<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:Brian.Cuttler@Health.NY.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">Brian.Cuttler@Health.NY.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">518 486-1697</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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