[Unbound-users] named.cache & .conf setup best practices

[shmick at riseup.net]

hello,

Ondřej Surý:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:03 PM, shmick at riseup.net <shmick at riseup.net>wrote:
> 
>> hello list,
>>
>> concerning the following entities and the many other entites that
>> provide dns services:
>>
>> cesidian;
>> unifiedroot;
>> public-root;
>> opennic;
>>
>> 1.
>> what is considered better practice for use with unbound:
>>
> 
> Best practise is _not_ to use alternative roots.

if i only incorporate a named.cache hint file from the traditional root
servers, without additional stub/forward entries in unbound.conf, will i
still be able to resolve for example new nation TLD's such as .ti .ko
and .uu ?

will i be able to resolve gTLD's such as .satan (which cesidian can)
.africa (which namespace can) or .geek (which opennic can) ?

> 
> 
>> 1.1
>> merging the above individually provided named.cache entries into one
>> file with the existing iana root-servers.net named.cache; or
>>
>> 1.2
>> manually adding forward/stub zone entries into the .conf file instead to
>> resolve other domains that would normally be un-resolvable?
>>
> 
> This.
> 
> 
>> 2.
>> why ?
>>
> 
> Because they provide conflicting namespaces (root vs. alt_root, but also
> alt_root vs. alt_root), so you need to pick which one you will be using
> anyway.
> 
> But I would like to repeat again. Don't use alt_roots, they don't play well
> (and never will) with unified DNS tree, and there's really no strong reason
> (no reason at all from my POV) for using them.
> 
> O.
>