Control: tags -1 patch On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 09:45:42PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > From my measurements (Zurich, Switzerland), all old addresses are still > > working, but new addresses are a bit faster in all cases. (by 10-20 ms > > compared to old addresses). > > shouldn't this data be removed from the bind9 package, and just have it > instead depend directly on dns-root-data? > > It'd be better if we only have to keep this stuff up-to-date in one > place, which should most likley be /usr/share/dns/root.hints Indeed. https://salsa.debian.org/dns-team/bind9/merge_requests/2 should be enough for new installations (people who adjusted named.conf.default-zones will get a debconf prompt). I'd like to avoid doing anything magic with an existing db.root, I think this has the potential to break a lot of things, while a slightly stale hints file is only used for priming at startup. Bernhard
