> On 24 Jan 2025, at 21:32, Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM Greg Choules wrote: >> >> >>> On 24 Jan 2025, at 19:07, Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 4:55 AM Petr Špaček wrote: >>>> >>>> On 15. 01. 25 19:55, Lee wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM Ondřej Surý wrote: >>>>>> On 14. 1. 2025, at 16:56, Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> In other words, should I submit a bug report to the Debian bind >>>>>> maintainers or ISC? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> With both my ISC and Debian hats on, I am going to be very frank >>>>>> and say this has a very low priority, so unless you actually want to >>>>>> work on this and submit a solid correct patch with a good reasoning, >>>>>> there's probably nobody that is going to work on this. >>>>> >>>>> I appreciate the honesty, but I think I'm missing something? >>>>> >>>>> The good reasoning part would be quoting the RFC and the solid correct >>>>> patch would be stripping out everything except the two line change I >>>>> made to my db.local in the original post. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately not quite, BIND does not ship with any zone files. >>> >>> Really?! I installed BIND on windows however long ago when it was >>> supported on Windows and it came with a db.local that looked identical >>> to the one that came with Debian. >> >> Certainly for the last quite a lot of years there hasn't been a hint zone >> file - whatever it might be called - shipped with BIND, if ever: there are >> too many releases to search through. >> The current (at the time of release) set of root servers are contained in >> the file rootns.c, but this is definitely not a zone file, just the place >> BIND gets its built-in hints from. >> I would think that, if a file called db.local, db.hint, db.root or whatever >> does exist, it is someone else who created it. > > I don't know who created or included db.local in the distribution of > bind. What I do know is that my installation of bind on windows and > my installation of bind on debian came with a db.local -- here's the > one that came with my installation of bind on Windows: >
I just looked in the source for 9.0.0, released nearly 25 years ago, to see what was there because I was curious. There is no file called “db.local": here’s the link if you want to check for yourself: https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.0.0/ Every release since then is also available to download, should you want to check them all. So the fact that you *do* have a file called “db.local", I think means nothing. Anyone could have created that for some purpose only they knew at the time. > C:\MyProgs\BIND\etc>more db.local > ; > ; BIND data file for local loopback interface > ; > $TTL 604800 > @ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. ( > 2 ; Serial > 604800 ; Refresh > 86400 ; Retry > 2419200 ; Expire > 604800 ) ; Negative Cache TTL > ; > @ IN NS localhost. > @ IN A 127.0.0.1 > @ IN AAAA ::1 > > C:\MyProgs\BIND\etc> > > and here's my modified copy of db.local on my Debian machine (I added > the two wildcard lines for .localhost.) > > lee@spot /etc/bind > $ cat db.local > ; > ; BIND data file for local loopback interface > ; > $TTL 604800 > @ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. ( > 3 ; Serial > 604800 ; Refresh > 86400 ; Retry > 2419200 ; Expire > 604800 ) ; Negative Cache TTL > ; > @ IN NS localhost. > @ IN A 127.0.0.1 > @ IN AAAA ::1 > > * IN A 127.0.0.1 > IN AAAA ::1 > > > lee@spot /etc/bind > $ dig +short foo.bar.localhost aaaa > ::1 > > lee@spot /etc/bind > $ grep db.local * > named.conf.default-zones: file "/etc/bind/db.local"; > > lee@spot /etc/bind > $ > > > Regards, > Lee
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