Setting up a Root name server

[chris]

Cricket Liu wrote:

> > I'm going to add my internal root server to the hint file. I will leave
> all the
> > other root name servers in there as well, since the RTT on my server
> should
> > be better then all the rest the resolvers will automatically use it.
>
> That's not going to be enough, for reasons I've already described.  When
> your name servers start up, they'll send a sysquery to one of the name
> servers in the root hints file--picked at random--and ask for the current
> list of roots.  13 out of 14 times that list will not include your internal
> root name server at all, so they won't use it.
>

I don't supose you can see a way around that? I dont want to run my servers
without the ability to fall back to the other root servers. Does BIND actualy
randomly select a root server out of the hint file??

- Chris