On 12/2/25 15:18, Philip Prindeville via bind-users wrote:
On Dec 2, 2025, at 12:37 AM, Ondřej Surý <[email protected]> wrote:
Nope. Automatic empty zones are kind of special (both configuration- and
code-wise).
Not sure I understand the difference between how “redfish-solutions.com” is
created and “168.192.in-addr.arpa”.
BIND's built-in automatic empty zones are fundamentally different
from "normal" zones (those loaded from a zone database or transfer).
The code handles them as a special case. It's not just a zone file
that's hard-coded into the program.
If you really want to get into gory details, grep for and
DNS_ZONEOPT_AUTOEMPTY and DNS_ZONESTATE_AUTOMATIC in the BIND source
code. But this is a level of detail you almost certainly do not need. :-)
The following article has more information about the auto zones
(although it does not get into the implementation, just purpose and
configuration):
https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00800
-- Ben
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