Reference to non-existent files in output from 9.18 rndc zonestatus

I'm baffled by something strange I came across yesterday, and would appreciate an injection of clue. I've kept this message short. Of course I can give more detail, but it's not yet clear what might be useful enough either to merit imposing a longer message on readers' attention, or to justify the

Re: 127/8 weirdness & entertainment for fun & profit.

Crist Clark writes: > Note that is all Linux-specific behavior. BSD-derived stacks are generally > different, e.g. FreeBSD and MacOS. They do not respond to addresses that > aren’t explicitly assigned to an interface. You cannot bind an address not > assigned to an interface. I know nothing abou