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). -- Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W