Hello,

it has been a while since I had setup a DNS-Server with CentOS 6; these days I added a few zones needed for DDNS; this works but in /etc/ I found quite a strange file, I'm not sure if it was in use at the beginning I used this system as a DNS-Server, and after several 'yum update' not any more;

/etc/named.root.key with this content

managed-keys { # DNSKEY for the root zone. # Updates are published on root-dnssec-announce@icann.org . initial-key 257 3 8 "AwEAAagAIKlVZrpC6Ia7gEzahOR+9W29euxhJhVVLOyQbSEW0O8gcCjF FVQUTf6v58fLjwBd0YI0EzrAcQqBGCzh/RStIoO8g0NfnfL2MTJRkxoX bfDaUeVPQuYEhg37NZWAJQ9VnMVDxP/VHL496M/QZxkjf5/Efucp2gaD X6RS6CXpoY68LsvPVjR0ZSwzz1apAzvN9dlzEheX7ICJBBtuA6G3LQpz W5hOA2hzCTMjJPJ8LbqF6dsV6DoBQzgul0sGIcGOYl7OyQdXfZ57relS Qageu+ipAdTTJ25AsRTAoub8ONGcLmqrAmRLKBP1dfwhYB4N7knNnulq QxA+Uk1ihz0="; };

and /etc/named.iscdlv.key with a content identical to this: http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/keys/9.8/bind.keys.v9_8

in no file neither in /etc/named.conf nor in any other file that is included by the main config I can find a reference to /etc/named.root.key

is this file really needed or did it become obsolete? (as seen on the URL above, /etc/named.root.key is part of /etc/named.iscdlv.key)

Thanks, Walter