[CentOS] Bind - built in root hints?

[Paul Heinlein]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> Over on the bind-users at lists.isc.org list, I am in a discussion about
> building the named.zone file, as Centos 6.3 does not provide it.  It
> DOES provide a named.ca which is already old (wrt AAAA records) compared
> to the named.zone provided by internic.
>
> A few contributors have stated that now the hints are built into bind
> and you can see this with:
>
> strings /usr/local/sbin/named | grep A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>
> Well it looks like Centos has it at /usr/sbin/named and there are no
> such strings in there.  Oh, these hints come from "lib/dns/rootns.c in
> the source code tree".
>
> So are the hints built in here?

See /var/named/named.ca (also visible in /var/named/chroot/var/named).

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