[bind10-dev] [PATCH] Add IPv4 addresses of the root servers into default configuration

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:33:32 +0100,
Adam Tkac <atkac at redhat.com> wrote:

> > > Resolver without default root_addresses setting is useless and returns 
> > > only SERVFAILs.
> > 
> > By default it includes the l.root-servers.net addresses (IPv6 too). See 
> > the b10-resolver manual page.  The b10-resolver is experimental code and 
> > we should better document that.  I don't think it will hurt to add all 
> > the default root addresses. Maybe IPv6 too. And remove the hard-coded 
> > address and fix docs.  But I don't know what is planned for the initial 
> > hints design (if anything).
> 
> Sounds fine for me, I will improve the patch and attach it to trac.
> 
> Btw hardcoded l-root address didn't work in my case, not sure why. Resolver
> just returned SERVFAIL to any query. However I didn't inspect why...

I've taken a closer look at the patch and the code to complete the
ticket:
https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind10-dev/2013-January/004210.html

and found that this configuration parameter isn't actually used at
all (another incident to suggest it's so experimental:-).  Listing all
well-known servers still won't do harm, but I'd rather propose not
touching the code.  I guess it's quite likely that the redesigned
version of resolver will have completely different code (and probably
with a different option to set up root server addresses), so we won't
be able to benefit from the patch anyway...

I'm now going to close the ticket, but if others have different
opinion please let me know.

Thanks,

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.