Bind8 does every 4sec a DNS-lookup

[Mark Andrews]

> Ok, does it mean that my ns do on every time I start it this querry to
> confirm the list and then be quiet?!?
> I usually shutdown and restart the server every day. So I the ns
> querry´s every day for that list.
> I think the best way for me in this situation is to remove the root.hint
> entry and keep only the forwarders entry. Is that possible and a good
> possibitity?
> 
> Christian

	No. The nameserver will still ask for the root servers.

	Mark
> 
> Jim Reid wrote:
> > 
> > Because that's the way name servers work. When they start, they send a
> > query to one or more of the name servers listed in the hints
> > file. They ask for a definitive list of names and addresses for the
> > root name servers. The information in the hints file is used to
> > initialise the name server by priming its cache. It provides hints of
> > good addresses to try when the name server is looking for the root
> > servers.
> 
> 
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