default named.conf in bind ports and slaving from f-root

[George Mitchell]

On 04/16/17 05:30, Thomas Steen Rasmussen wrote:
> On 04/16/2017 04:02 AM, George Mitchell wrote:
>> On 04/14/17 08:37, Thomas Steen Rasmussen wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Cloudflare deployed a bunch (74 apparently) of new f-root dns
>>> servers, which do not permit AXFR like the other f-root instances
>>> do.
>>> [...]
>>> A good alternative could be to change named.conf to use
>>> lax.xfr.dns.icann.org and iad.xfr.dns.icann.org as
>>> described in [2]. My named.conf now looks like this:
>>> [...]
>> Does this issue affect me if I use type "hint" for zone "." like this:
>>
>> zone "." { type hint; file "/usr/local/etc/namedb/named.root"; };
>>
>> -- George
>>
> Hello,
> 
> Someone else already responded, but for the record: No,
> it does not. Slaving the root zone is an alternative to using
> the hints file. The advantage is that the data is always
> uptodate. The disadvantage is stuff like this, obviously.
> [...]

Thank you, Kevin and Thomas, for confirming what I already
suspected was the case.                          -- George


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