How to create a fake root server?

[Mark Andrews]

In message <53216B43.8040200 at gmail.com>, Peter writes:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. It's just for a closed internal network with no 
> access to the rest of the internet. Making labs such as testing ISP 
> functions and services, mail servers etc. Everything is running inside 
> an VMware host with an internal closed network.
> 
> I have created a closed "Internet" on 172.16.x.x where I would like to 
> put up a root server for .loc, where several other ISP-DNS servers, with 
> domains, are referred to. I've managed to create those "ISP-DNS" servers 
> which works fine. But I'm having trouble to create the root DNS server 
> with Bind. I haven't found any useful examples at the web yet.

Perhaps because a root zone is like any other zone.  It has a SOA
record and NS records at the apex and other records.

. 3600 SOA server.example.net. hostmaster.example.net. 1 3600 1200 2419200 3600
. 3600 NS server.example.net.
. 3600 NS another.example.net.
server.example.net. 3600 A 1.2.3.4
another.example.net. 3600 A 1.2.3.5

> It's for a school project.
> 
> Regards, Peter
> 
> 
> On 12/03/14 19:56, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> > First of all, don't use .loc as an internal TLD. There are *many*
> > proposals in process with ICANN for establishing new TLDs, and for all
> > you know, .loc might be one of them. If .loc gets established on the
> > Internet, and you're using it internally, that presents abundant
> > opportunities for confusion and failure.
> >
> > Use a publically-registered domain, a descendant of a
> > publically-registered domain, or potentially, one of the reserved TLDs
> > in RFC 6761.
> >
> > I'm not sure what your question is, exactly. Set up the root zone,
> > slave it, publish 2 or more of the master/slaves in the NS records,
> > delegate whatever TLD you're going to use, set up *that* zone, lather,
> > rinse, repeat, for the entire hierarchy. Anyone who reads
> > _DNS_and_BIND_ should be able to set up an internal-root
> > infrastructure, IMO (although, sadly, the later editions don't seem as
> > aligned to internal-root as they used to be).
> >
> >                                         - Kevin
> >
> >
> > On 3/12/2014 11:07 AM, Peter wrote:
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> I'm doing a virtual internet (internal net) for several VPS's. My
> >> goal is to simulate the Internet root servers and the ISP:s domain
> >> servers, which are hosting the actual domains. I want to the create
> >> several DNS nameservers that will contain the specific domain under
> >> the "xxx.loc, yyy.loc, zzz.loc".
> >>
> >> 1 server for the .loc root
> >> 3 servers for xxx.loc (server1), yyy.loc (server2), zzz.loc (server3)
> >>
> >> Running BIND 9 at every server.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions or good links are highly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Peter
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