On 15 August 2017 at 11:29, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) <h...@utk.edu> wrote:
> How does Bind update the root servers? Does it go out and check, or is a > release made for each change? > Yes. :) 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.
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