Unbound - root.hints

[RamSense]

I have a question about unbound. I am, as of recently and thanks to the good explanation about why and how from @pmhausen, using unbound without any upstream servers and have been reading into unbound.

Now i discovered that the unbound root.hints file on opnsense is from 2018, while the latest version is oct 2022:
https://www.internic.net/domain/named.root

The contents of the files however are unchanged and identical. But there could have been a change in the file/root servers. How is this file being updated on opnsense? Only by the @opnsense-team with updates rollout? Or must the user update this file themselves? What is best practice here?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

How is this file being updated on opnsense? Only by the @opnsense-team with updates rollout? Or must the user update this file themselves?

Yes. No user serviceable parts, here. This is updated with new versions of Unbound. Obviously the maintainers did not deem it necessary to replace the file with one that has identical content.

[RamSense]

Thanks!