Bind 8.x and Intranets (no Internet) questions

[Barry Margolin]

In article <385DC39A.63021ADA at tfcci.com>,
Todd Williams  <twilliams at 21st-century-comm.com> wrote:
>Here is the situation:  This machine is in no way shape or form attached
>to the internet.  We do not want it to attempt look to the internet root
>servers for answers -- they won't have the answers for these queries
>anyway, not to mention that the box can't even get to the internet root
>servers.  I have attempted several different things, including removing
>the named.ca file (root cache), cat /dev/null > named.ca, adding a root
>server of 127.0.0.1, and always it complains about something into
>/var/log/messages.  Usually something like
>"sysquery: findns error (SERVFAIL) on ?"  -- I don't want all those
>messages cluttering my syslog file.

Configure it as a primary server for the root domain.  In named.conf:

zone "." {
  type master;
  filename "db.root";
}

In db.root:

@ IN SOA <all the usual SOA stuff>
  IN NS <yourservername>.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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