no outside contact, intranet DNS

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9qnif1$fjl at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Adrian Immler <newsgroups at 12mm.de> wrote:
>> Either there's a problem in your root server hints file, or your server is
>> having trouble querying the root servers.
>
>yeah ... i have no root server in my named.conf ... thats right ... but what
>when this server is for intranet purposals only ? so no connection to the
>outside world ?

If it never needs to contact the root servers you can ignore the log
messages about the root nameservers.

If you want to prevent them in the first place, configure your server as a
master for the root zone.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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