On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 22:02:47 -0800
Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:

> Quoting Steve Litt (slitt@???):
>
> > When I added four opennic root servers to my unbound's root.hints
>
> {laughs}
>
> Oh, you sweet summer child. Experimenting with alternative DNS roots,
> eh?
>
> It's been decades since I've done so, but ISTR that the correct way to
> do that is to re-point the root-hints line in your Unbound conf file
> to opennic.cache.
>
> > I'd really like to have both icann and opennic root servers in my
> > root.hints.
>
> No, you don't.
>
> opennic.cache should include the standard TLD nameservers.
>
Hi,
can this opennic.cache file be downloaded freely or do you need
to register?

Ciao,
Tito