On 12/25/23 04:48, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.

Thanks Carlos for responding, much appreciated. Yeah the error is  only printed during startup, I am delivering a system to a client and I just don't like delivering something that has startup warnings or errors. It is not critical,  just not professional is all...  I am prototyping on one of my own systems and after installing bind I noticed these warnings on startup and was just trying to  clean things up for him. I will trying upgrading to  15.5 and see if that makes a difference but that may bring about an number of new errors/problems so am a bit hesitant  to do so..  Upgrades always do that to me....

     Marc...



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


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