Tim Barbour writes: > The DNS HOWTO (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO-8.html) recommends using > dig to get the root hints. Since dig is included with bind, it should be > available by the time preStart runs, so I think we could use dig in preStart > to fetch the root hints each time preStart runs. Unfortunately, that approach > does not provide the version number information (being in a comment, which > dig > will not return), but it should still work.
Now I am reading elsewhere http://grokbase.com/t/centos/centos/132e099w4y/bind-built-in-root-hints that modern bind does not need the root hints file, because it is capable of finding the information itself. But it may need root.key for DNSSEC. Tim _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
