On 12/7/19 12:52 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
Just a note to anyone running bind-9 for name resolution, the old configs containing root.hints now results in named failing to start with:
Dec 06 14:53:02 phoinix named[455]: could not configure root hints from 'root.hint': file not found Dec 06 14:53:02 phoinix named[455]: loading configuration: file not found Dec 06 14:53:02 phoinix named[455]: exiting (due to fatal error)
FWIW: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61732 https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01309#do-i-need-to-configure-a-root-hints-zone-my... The removal of this from the pa
The solution is just to comment out the old dummy zone relying on root.hints (I'm sure I recall a note about this some time about, but now it is official).
Quickfix:
// zone "." IN { // type hint; // file "root.hint"; // };
The bind 9.14.8-3 update removed the root.hint file and correspondingly removed the dummy zone you have commented out in the packaged backup file /etc/named.conf -- you should have noticed a warning from pacman about a pacnew file. In this case, it would seem that resolving the pacnew file is required in order to start the updated bind package. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User