>No, you don't need any of those. They have been built in for a long time. Most 
>of them in 9.11 even.
thanks

>You can override any of them, if you need to
I don't need them, my dns server works only as cache one.
I will remove this entry include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones" in named.conf

I chose to use only the named.conf, It's a best practice ?
In the older 9.11 version named.conf included named.conf.options.




Il giorno lun 1 giu 2026 alle ore 13:09 Greg Choules
<[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
> No, you don't need any of those. They have been built in for a long time. 
> Most of them in 9.11 even.
> Look at the startup log and it will tell you the list of built-in empty zones.
> You can override any of them, if you need to. For example if you have to be 
> authoritative for 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa because you use that /24 and want 
> PTR records, for some reason.
>
> Cheers, Greg
>
> On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 at 12:04, Renzo Marengo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I installed bind 9.20.23 (rpm package) in Alma Linux 9 and I'm
>> migrating the old Bind 9.11.4 which is running in Centos environment.
>> It's necessary to create the standard named.rfc1912.zones ? I
>> reference It inside named.conf ( include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones" )
>> This file references "named.localhost", "named.loopback", "named.empty"
>>
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> named.rfc1912.zones
>> -----------------------------
>>
>> zone "localhost.localdomain" IN {
>>         type primary;
>>         file "named.localhost";
>>         allow-update { none; };
>> };
>>
>> zone "localhost" IN {
>>         type primary;
>>         file "named.localhost";
>>         allow-update { none; };
>> };
>>
>> zone 
>> "1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa"
>> IN {
>>         type primary;
>>         file "named.loopback";
>>         allow-update { none; };
>> };
>>
>> zone "1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
>>         type primary;
>>         file "named.loopback";
>>         allow-update { none; };
>> };
>>
>> zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN {
>>         type primary;
>>         file "named.empty";
>>         allow-update { none; };
>> };
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