Advice on Bind 8
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Fri Dec 26 00:19:25 UTC 2003
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:15:00PM -0500,
> Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote
> a message of 24 lines which said:
>
> > All BIND nameservers need access to root zone information
>
> But not always locally: of the BIND server is set up with forwarders
> and forward-only, it does not need a root zone or a hint file, no?
It still needs to root servers to fill in the authority section
of answers to which closer authority has expired.
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