Can bind works without defining root servers
King, Harold Clyde (Hal)
hck at utk.edu
Tue Aug 15 15:29:14 UTC 2017
How does Bind update the root servers? Does it go out and check, or is a release made for each change?
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On 8/15/17, 11:02, "bind-users on behalf of Alan Clegg" <bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org on behalf of alan at clegg.com> wrote:
Root hints have been built in forever. (and that's "forever" in
Internet years)
On 8/15/17 10:58 AM, Duleep Thilakarathne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can observe, bind can resolve host names without following entry in
> named.conf. could anyone help me to understand this default behavior.
>
>
> zone "." {
> type hint;
> file "root.servers";
> };
>
> regards
> DT
>
>
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