[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#888491: Bug#888491: bind9: Provide up to date db.root in stable Debian release

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Control: tags -1 patch

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 09:45:42PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> > From my measurements (Zurich, Switzerland), all old addresses are still
> > working, but new addresses are a bit faster in all cases. (by 10-20 ms
> > compared to old addresses).
> 
> shouldn't this data be removed from the bind9 package, and just have it
> instead depend directly on dns-root-data?
> 
> It'd be better if we only have to keep this stuff up-to-date in one
> place, which should most likley be /usr/share/dns/root.hints

Indeed.

https://salsa.debian.org/dns-team/bind9/merge_requests/2

should be enough for new installations (people who adjusted
named.conf.default-zones will get a debconf prompt).

I'd like to avoid doing anything magic with an existing db.root, I think
this has the potential to break a lot of things, while a slightly stale
hints file is only used for priming at startup.

Bernhard