From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 13: 2: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4066737B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 13:02:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mgw1-out.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90CEF43F3F for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 13:02:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from VirusGate.MEIway.com (virus-gate.meiway.com [212.73.210.91]) by mgw1-out.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 973C3EF909 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:53:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.meiway.com [127.0.0.1]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 365665D009 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 22:04:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB6E85D008 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 22:04:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from tx0-go2france-c.Go2France.com [66.64.14.18] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A97A2A19013C; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 22:17:46 +0100 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030201145958.02a6e678@mail.go2france.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.go2france.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 15:01:56 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: RE: DNS question In-Reply-To: References: <3E3C2EB0.6050801@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Ahh okay, I understand that. Someone once told me the information is >already downloaded in a list, so the server doesn't have to contact >root all the time to get ns information. Is this not true anymore? bind9 has the root-servers "hints zone" in its binary, but will use an external hints zone if listed in named.conf. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message