restricted DNS

[Marc Redmile]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for you detailed reply.  A few points flew over my head though  :-)

like: A)  What is the "min-roots" global option ?
and B)  . Or,
> to be just a little less confusing, you could split out "in-addr.arpa" or
> some subdomain thereof for a neater forward/reverse segregation. ???

I feel dumb.

hope you are still on this one.

regards,
Marc.




"Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
news:392ECA08.3A4FF3CF at daimlerchrysler.com...
> Marc Redmile wrote:
>
> > Dear pro's,
> >
> > Is it possible to run a simple DNS setup on a machine which does not
have
> > internet access ?
>
> Sure, but do you still want to resolve Internet names? In you do, then
> you'll have to find a server with Internet access to use as a forwarder.
>
> If you don't need to resolve Internet names, then you can run without
> forwarding, but you'll need an internal root zone. If you have only one
> server available to serve the root zone, you may want to tweak the
> "min-roots" global option.
>
> If you have a *really* simple DNS setup with no requirement to resolve
> external names, you don't even actually need separate zones: you could
throw
> everything, forward and reverse, into a single root zone. I have in the
past
> set up such "self-contained" DNS'es for test boxes on isolated networks.
Or,
> to be just a little less confusing, you could split out "in-addr.arpa" or
> some subdomain thereof for a neater forward/reverse segregation.
>
>
> - Kevin
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