Building a fresh named.root

[Tony Finch]

Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> On 02/14/2013 09:05 AM, Warren Kumari wrote:
> > BIND now comes with a baked in roots file (in the imaginatively named
> > lib/dns/rootns.c )
>
> Not (at least by that name) in the Redhat/Centos 6.3 bind 9.8.2.

That is a source file name which is compiled into the binary. You don't
need any extra files in the installation.

> > There is no need for a named.root file, and is just another thing to go
> > wrong…
>
> Is there anything needed in the named.conf to actuate this if you do have it?

The default is to use the built-in hints.

Tony.
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