Thank you sir! I'll investigate the newer bind implementations. Regards.
Bob On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:41 PM Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote: > Bob McDonald <bmcdonal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've recently been investigating having a local slave copy of the root > zone > > on a caching/forwarder type server. > > I do this on my toy server for various strange reasons, and although it > has worked OK I'm not confident it's really solid enough for production. > > If you are running BIND 9.12 then its RFC 8198 implementation removes a > lot of the benefits of having a local root (and it also works for the arpa > zones). > > BIND 9.14 will have an improved local root implementation (called a > "mirror" zone) which validates the zone so you don't blindly serve bogus > data. The feature is available now in the 9.13 dev branch; I have not > tried mirroring the arpa zones - the docs suggest that isn't a supported > config for mirror zones. > > Tony. > -- > f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ > democracy, participation, and the co-operative principle >
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