Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 17/06/15 12:27, Gaurav Kansal wrote: Hi Gaurav, At most, what I can make sure is my hint file is up-to-dated with this cross check. You're better off not providing a hints file at all. BIND ships with a built-in list of hints, and it will use this if you don't provide a hints file. BIND's

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 17/06/15 12:27, Gaurav Kansal wrote: At most, what I can make sure is my hint file is up-to-dated with this cross check. On 17.06.15 14:26, Anand Buddhdev wrote: You're better off not providing a hints file at all. BIND ships with a built-in list of hints, and it will use this if you

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Warren Kumari
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Anand Buddhdev ana...@ripe.net wrote: On 17/06/15 15:00, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Hi Matus, well, the hard-coded hints file changes whenever new BIND release gets out, while the bungled hints file may be updated by packagers or manually. I'd say that

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Barry Margolin
In article mailman.2170.1434552077.26362.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, gaurav.kan...@nic.in wrote: In case, i have my hint file in bind configuration and it also have its hard-coded one, who will get the priority. Means which file will be used by bind for getting responses from root ? The

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread gaurav . kansal
In case, i have my hint file in bind configuration and it also have its hard-coded one, who will get the priority. Means which file will be used by bind for getting responses from root ? Sent by kansal's device. On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:17 AM -0700, Anand Buddhdev ana...@ripe.net wrote:

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 17/06/15 15:00, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Hi Matus, well, the hard-coded hints file changes whenever new BIND release gets out, while the bungled hints file may be updated by packagers or manually. I'd say that the bundled hints file is likely to be newer than the hard-coded one.

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Gaurav Kansal gaurav.kan...@nic.in wrote: Dear Team, My caching DNS server is generating log of . NS queries to ROOT Servers. I have a hint file in my bind configuration and the same is up-to date. The same behavior is occurring in multiple versions of

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Leonard Mills
The hints hopefully point eventually to an authoritative server for .. Whatever that authoritative server says overrides any hints, just like any other zone's authoritative NS.  It does not matter how obsolete a delegation is, so long as  some authoritative NS replies, the data from the

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Warren Kumari
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Kevin Oberman rkober...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Gaurav Kansal gaurav.kan...@nic.in wrote: Dear Team, My caching DNS server is generating log of . NS queries to ROOT Servers. I have a hint file in my bind configuration and the same

RE: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Darcy Kevin (FCA)
). - Kevin From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Leonard Mills Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 3:05 PM To: Gaurav Kansal; bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND The hints

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Darcy Kevin (FCA) kevin.da...@fcagroup.com wrote: Right, we know how hints files are used, but I think you guys may be missing the underlying conundrum: why is named querying the NS records of the root zone more often than the TTL of that RRset? See that