Establishing an internal root server

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Aug 13 19:01:07 UTC 1999


In article <37B459C9.AB7F14A0 at earthlink.net>,
Steve Hammill  <shammill at earthlink.net> wrote:
>Thanks to everyone who helped me get my DNS server working last
>weekend.  Now I'm hoping to get it totally right.
>
>We do not have an Internet connection.  Can I establish our primary as a
>pseudo-root by giving the A server in db.cache my DNS address and
>deleting the rest?
>
>Or is there a "proper" way to do it.  I couldn't find it in DNS/Bind,
>but I might not have been using the correct terminology.

Just make yourself primary for the domain named ".".

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