Bind8 does every 4sec a DNS-lookup

[Barry Margolin]

In article <39505921.B207E6B9 at at.siemens.de>,
Christian Birkmeier  <Christian.Birkmeier at at.siemens.de> wrote:
>Barry Margolin wrote:
>> 
>> In article <394F6197.173CCAC5 at intstar.com>,
>> Gareth Bromley  <gbromley at intstar.com> wrote:
>> >Christian Birkmeier wrote:
>> >
>> Actually, it will do that even if no one is querying.  When named starts
>> up, it wants to get the current list of root servers from one of the
>> servers in the hints file, so it sends out those queries spontaneously.
> 
>Aha,
>and how can I stop this behavior. I already downloades the newest
>root.hint file from rs.internic.net. Why does my ns wants the current
>list of root servers?

Because it has no way of knowing that your file is up to date.  That's why
it's called "hints".

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