On 2023-12-25 03:09, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 12/23/23 13:09, Marc Chamberlin via openSUSE Users wrote:
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That file was eliminated from being included in many distro packages for that reason. I haven't checked openSUSE lately, but Arch no longer provides one. Basically, when named runs now, it is smart enough to figure out what the root servers are an caches the information.
Leap 15.4 includes it officially: cer@Isengard:~> rpm -ql bind | grep hint /usr/share/factory/var/lib/named/root.hint /var/lib/named/root.hint cer@Isengard:~> cer@Isengard:~> rpm -qf /var/lib/named/root.hint bind-9.16.44-150400.5.37.2.x86_64 cer@Isengard:~> AFAIK, the error is only printed during startup. cer@Isengard:~> grep checkhints: /var/log/warn | tail ... <3.4> 2023-12-20T19:19:29.235130+01:00 Isengard named 1989 - - checkhints: b.root-servers.net/AAAA (2001:500:200::b) extra record in hints -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)