On 02/19/2013 08:17 AM, Nathan Duehr wrote: > On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Robert Moskowitz <r...@htt-consult.com> wrote: > >> "No need to worry. They are only hints, and named uses them to get the >> current list of root name servers at startup. Even if they are 15 years >> out of date it will still work, because the root name servers do not >> change very often." > That's because all it takes is one, and the memory cache is then updated with > the current list. If even one of the hinted servers is correct, the show > goes on.
Since I posted this, and a similar thread on the bind-users list, I have tested without a hint stub and it works just fine. Redhat should pull it (named.ca) from the distribution. Even a caching server will discover the current root addresses from what is built in. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
