Fix named checkhints extra record in hints

Recently named on my Debian server started to emit the following messages:

Dec 23 18:30:05 server named[1168203]: checkhints: view external_network: b.root-servers.net/A (170.247.170.2) missing from hints
Dec 23 18:30:05 server named[1168203]: checkhints: view external_network: b.root-servers.net/A (199.9.14.201) extra record in hints
Dec 23 18:30:05 server named[1168203]: checkhints: view external_network: b.root-servers.net/AAAA (2801:1b8:10::b) missing from hints
Dec 23 18:30:05 server named[1168203]: checkhints: view external_network: b.root-servers.net/AAAA (2001:500:200::b) extra record in hints

The reason for these warnings, is a IP change of the B root-server.

Debian is not ready yet with updating their dns-root-data package.
To fix the mismatching IP definitions on a Debian system, the current root zone definitions can also be updated manually from Internic:

curl https://www.internic.net/domain/named.root -s > /usr/share/dns/root.hints
curl https://www.internic.net/domain/named.root.sig -s > /usr/share/dns/root.hints.sig

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