bind 8.2.2pl5 wants to ping root servers...

[Kevin Darcy]

Mark.Andrews at iengines.com wrote:

> > Hi, All!
> >
> >   I've upgraded from BIND 8.1.2 (FreeBSD 3.3) to BIND 8.2.2pl5
> >   (FreeBSD 3.4) and new version sends requests to ROOT servers just
> >   after start. But my network have Dial-on-demand routing, and I don't
> >   want to have PPP connection just after server reboot or BIND
> >   restart. BIND 8.1.2 didn't send such requests and everything works
> >   perfectly.
>
>         No.  It didn't run perfectly.  There are particular requests
>         that can't be satisfied without priming the cache with the
>         root NS RRset at start up.

Okay, I'll bite. What can priming do that an on-demand root NS query can't?


- Kevin