Hints file when forwarding unnecessary in BIND 8.2.x?

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> >> Much to my surprise and delight, my BIND 8.2.1 name server configured with
>  
> >> global forwarding does not seem to require a hints file.  No log message 
> >> about the lack of root name servers is emitted at startup and the server 
> >> appears to resolve anything just fine.  This is a recent change.  Is it 
> >> this one?
> >> 
> 
> We have recently put in a new BIND 8.2.1 name server (on Solaris 2.6). This n
> ame server has no direct access to the Internet, has a standard hints file an
> d has options { forward only; }; configured with a list of forwarders. The la
> tter is the same IP address repeated thrice - the IP address is that of a fir
> ewall whose DNS daemon has access to the Internet.
> 
> Name resolution works correctly. However, the log produced by the internal na
> me server has the following message repeated over and over - "check_root: 1 r
> oot servers after query to root server < min" - (presumambly because MINROOTS
>  defined in ns_defs.h is set to 2). Is this behaviour correct with our config
> uration? The snippet from a previous message in this thread seems to suggest 
> otherwise.

	I sometimes wonder what firewall manufactures are thinking when
	they do stupid things like re-define the root nameserver list.
	Do they also reset the NS list in all other queries?

	Anyway BIND 8.2.2 (in beta test) has a configuration option
	which will shut named up.

 768.   [support]       MINROOTS is now a configuration option "min-roots".

	Mark
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tarun
> 
> Tarun Bhushan
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> Sydney, Australia.
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