Setting up a Root name server

[Cricket Liu]

Chris Roach <chris at megabytecoffee.com> wrote in message
news:<37C6297B.884E6CEF at megabytecoffee.com>...
>     How would I go about setting up a root name server, I have the TLD
> files from internic and would like to set up a root server for my
> network. We currently host about 250k IP's and believe that this would
> speed up our network a lot.

As I said as Mr. DNS, this is really only practical if you've got a host
sitting around with a couple gig of extra memory, since com alone is >
1.3GB.  Even then, getting your other internal name servers to query your
root name server will be tricky.

> I've tried a few things but can't seem to get named to load the xxx.zone
> files right...
> What should the named.conf file look like for something like this??

Again, as I said as Mr. DNS,

zone "com" {
    type master;
    file "tld/com.zone";
};

If you're not going to pay attention to Mr. DNS's responses, don't ask him
questions.

cricket

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