Can bind works without defining root servers

[Alan Clegg]

Root hints have been built in forever.  (and that's "forever" in
Internet years)

On 8/15/17 10:58 AM, Duleep Thilakarathne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can observe, bind can resolve host names without following entry  in
> named.conf. could anyone help me to understand this default behavior.
> 
> 
> zone "." {
>   type hint;
>   file "root.servers";
> };
> 
> regards
> DT
> 
> 
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