On 02/14/2013 12:29 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > 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). Yes. I know about that. But as I said, the discussion is that this is no longer needed as the hints are now built into bind if no explicit hint is provided. I am asking if the above stub is included in the Redhat/Centos build. It does not seem so.