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Date:      Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:36:32 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Replacing BIND with unbound
Message-ID:  <86y5mtm4yn.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <201207090449.q694nW9C094754@chronos.org.uk> (Matt Dawson's message of "Mon, 9 Jul 2012 05:49:32 %2B0100")
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Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk> writes:
> TBH, even having the root zone in base is a bit daft.

The root zone we ship is a hint used to bootstrap named.  Without it,
named is a brick, unless all you want is an authoritative-only
nameserver.  All named does with that hint file is use it to locate a
root server from which it can obtain a fresh copy of the root zone.
Feel free to replace it with a fresh copy from InterNIC.  Since the root
zone is signed, you could even set up a cron job to do automatically
update the hint file at regular intervals.

DES
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