[dns-operations] issues about L and H root-servers missing hints

[Paul Hoffman]

A note to the developers of BIND (and any other resolvers who have 
similar warning messages):

On 3 Jul 2017, at 8:19, Eduardo Romero Urra wrote:

> Issues received last 15 minutes about hints missing on L and H 
> root-servers:
>
> Jul  3 11:10:06 ns1 named[27878]: checkhints: h.root-servers.net/A 
> (198.97.190.53) missing from hints
> Jul  3 11:10:06 ns1 named[27878]: checkhints: h.root-servers.net/A 
> (128.63.2.53) extra record in hints
> Jul  3 11:10:06 ns1 named[27878]: checkhints: h.root-servers.net/AAAA 
> (2001:500:1::53) missing from hints
> Jul  3 11:10:06 ns1 named[27878]: checkhints: h.root-servers.net/AAAA 
> (2001:500:1::803f:235) extra record in hints
> Jul  3 11:10:06 ns1 named[27878]: checkhints: l.root-servers.net/AAAA 
> (2001:500:9f::42) missing from hints
> Jul  3 11:10:06 ns1 named[27878]: checkhints: l.root-servers.net/AAAA 
> (2001:500:3::42) extra record in hints
> Jul  3 11:10:09 ns1 named[27878]: checkhints: h.root-servers.net/A 
> (198.97.190.53) missing from hints
> Jul  3 11:10:09 ns1 named[27878]: checkhints: h.root-servers.net/A 
> (128.63.2.53) extra record in hints
> Jul  3 11:10:09 ns1 named[27878]: checkhints: h.root-servers.net/AAAA 
> (2001:500:1::53) missing from hints
> Jul  3 11:10:09 ns1 named[27878]: checkhints: h.root-servers.net/AAAA 
> (2001:500:1::803f:235) extra record in hints
> Jul  3 11:10:09 ns1 named[27878]: checkhints: l.root-servers.net/AAAA 
> (2001:500:9f::42) missing from hints
> Jul  3 11:10:09 ns1 named[27878]: checkhints: l.root-servers.net/AAAA 
> (2001:500:3::42) extra record in hints

A more useful warning message might be:

checkhints: l.root-servers.net/AAAA (2001:500:9f::42) missing from 
hints; update your hints file (see <some url goes here>)
checkhints: l.root-servers.net/AAAA (2001:500:3::42) extra record in 
hints; update your hints file (see <some url goes here>)