failure with empty hints file on forward first

[William Stacey]

ahhh.  Then Mr Cricket is off in his book.  Not sure of the page number, but
he talked about "compiled" in hints for this last chance behavior.  I guess
this (your) way makes more sense as you probably don't want compiled hints
because my hints could be internal roots, etc.

-- 
William Stacey

"Barry Margolin" <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:c8bakr$2hp4$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> 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 ***
> > >
>
> -- 
> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
>