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 out of date it will still work, because the root name servers do not 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