failure with empty hints file on forward first
William Stacey
staceyw at mvps.org
Sun May 16 17:29:14 UTC 2004
Don't they "bake" in hints that are used if config file empty or not
supplied?
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William Stacey
"Barry Margolin" <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:c809hp$n60$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> In article <c807fs$l8b$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> Jeff Stevens <jstevens at vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > does bind require the named.ca (hints) file to be populated if
> > forward first is used? it seems to fail for such a case, while forward
> > only works...
>
> When "forward first" is used, it has to be prepared to use the root
> servers if the forwarders don't answer. So it needs the hints.
>
> Older releases of BIND even required the hints when "forward only" was
> used, but this was eventually fixed.
>
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> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
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>
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