failure with empty hints file on forward first

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c8avl9$244m$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "William Stacey" <staceyw at mvps.org> wrote:

> Don't they "bake" in hints that are used if config file empty or not
> supplied?

Nope.  The distribution comes with a valid hints file, and that's the 
"baked in" defaults.

> -- 
> William Stacey
> 
> "Barry Margolin" <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
> news:c809hp$n60$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> > In article <c807fs$l8b$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> >  Jeff Stevens <jstevens at vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > > does bind require the named.ca (hints) file to be populated if
> > > forward first is used? it seems to fail for such a case, while forward
> > > only works...
> >
> > When "forward first" is used, it has to be prepared to use the root
> > servers if the forwarders don't answer.  So it needs the hints.
> >
> > Older releases of BIND even required the hints when "forward only" was
> > used, but this was eventually fixed.
> >
> > -- 
> > Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> > Arlington, MA
> > *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
> >

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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