* Eric Reischer: > My question is, will it be sufficient to create a new root hints file > that has [A-M].ROOT-SERVERS.NET all defined as 192.168.0.2 (my BIND9 > server's address), or will some other method be more prudent? Will this > create a circular reference? My goal is to have the server return an > NXDOMAIN rather than a SERVFAIL on a query to a host that isn't in the > local table. The other thought I had was to create zone files for > "com", "net", "edu", etc, and have them all empty.
You could disable recursion altogether and just serve your local zones authoritatively.
