Building a fresh named.root

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 02/14/2013 09:38 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> 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.

That makes sense.  Smart people that put this together  ;)

Given the expansion of AAAA records, I think I am going to stay with an 
explicit root file this time around.