[CentOS] Bind - built in root hints?

[Robert Moskowitz]

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.