[Nix-dev] bind root hints

[Tim Barbour]

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