Establishing an internal root server

[Cricket Liu]

Steve Hammill <shammill at earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:<37B459C9.AB7F14A0 at earthlink.net>...
> 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?

No.  You've got to create a real zone data file for the root zone and
configure your name server as authoritative for that zone.

> 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.

Try the last chapter, in the section on firewalls.

cricket

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