Can bind works without defining root servers

[Warren Kumari]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com> wrote:
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> On 15 August 2017 at 11:29, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) <hck at utk.edu> wrote:
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>> How does Bind update the root servers? Does it go out and check, or is a
>> release made for each change?
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> Yes. :)
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> BIND has a compiled-in root hints list that is kept up to date at each
> release, which can be overridden with a zone of type 'hint'.   It also does
> what's calling "priming queries", which is to contact one of the known root
> servers from the hints list, and retrieve and up-to-date authoritative NS
> set for the root zone from the root zone itself.

... and for gory details on priming queries, see RFC8109 (
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8109/ )


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