failure with empty hints file on forward first

[William Stacey]

I guess Cricket was right.  However I thought the BIND folklore was that ttl
was 3600000?

-- 
William Stacey

<phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu> wrote in message
news:c8bcti$2kmo$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > In article <c8avl9$244m$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> >  "William Stacey" <staceyw at mvps.org> wrote:
>
> >> Don't they "bake" in hints that are used if config file empty or not
> >> supplied?
>
> > Nope.  The distribution comes with a valid hints file, and that's the
> > "baked in" defaults.
>
> Bind 9 has ( 9.2.3 ) ./lib/dns/rootns.c :
> containg :
> static char root_ns[] =
> ";\n"
> "; Internet Root Nameservers\n"
> ";\n"
> "; Thu Sep 23 17:57:37 PDT 1999\n"
> ";\n"
> "$TTL 518400\n"
> ".                       518400  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.\n"
> ".                       518400  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.\n"
> ".                       518400  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.\n"
> ".                       518400  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.\n"
> ".                       518400  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.\n"
> ".                       518400  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.\n"
> ".                       518400  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.\n"
> ".                       518400  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.\n"
>
> <rest snipped>
>
> The binary also contains these addresses ...
>
> My guess is that bind will function at least partially even with a broken
> config.
>
>
>
> >> -- 
> >> 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 ***
> >> >
>
> > -- 
> > Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> > Arlington, MA
> > *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
>
>
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