Have several questions about setup- Bind 8.1.2

[Adrian Griffis]

Hello Joe,

First off, thank you for responding to my post. I didn't post the actual
domain name because I was worried about security, call it paranoia.
Anyway, our domain is appleton.fsu.edu, as you can see it falls under
fsu.edu but we are at a different location (we are a museum owned by FSU).
Under our old network setup (I mentioned in my last post) FSU had entries in
their DNS, just name-to-address, for us to point to the dial-up ISP servers,
since then I have contacted Fsu and had them change that info to the servers
on our network now(that was Monday). They told me that they well only do
name-to-address translations(say for e-mail and www) and we were responsible
for everything else.

Here are the files I have.

db.appleton.fsu.edu
db.204.96.30
db.127.0.0
db.cache

As far as the MX records go, in my db.appleton.fsu.edu file. It is listed as

             @ SOA ns1.appleton.fsu.edu
                IN NS ns1.appleton.fsu.edu
ns1           IN A 204.96.30.10
seminole   IN  A 204.96.30.2  ;seminole is our e-mail server
                IN MX seminole
#              IN MX seminole

I stuck in the wildcard for the MX ,after we could not get any e-mail.
I seen in DNS and BIND book to try the wildcard, So I did.

I hope this is enough info. Sorry it's so lengthy.......

Thanks again,

Adrian

Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov> wrote in message
news:19991223192329.B17979 at adams.cospo.osis.gov...
> On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 04:14:09PM -0500, Adrian Griffis wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > A brief history:
> > Our company recently switched our whole network around. We used to use a
> > dial-up connection and our web page and e-mail were through the dial-up
ISP
> > server. Now we have a permanent connection and have our own web server
and
> > e-mail server. One of the catches was to run our own DNS server because
the
> > new ISP wanted to much money for a primary for us, but we could use a
their
> > secondary at no charge.
> >
> > My questions are:
> >
> > 1) How do you setup for an ISP secondary server? (i.e. what files are
needed
> > ..db.xxx.xx.xx and what is needed in the named.conf file)
> > I've tried this earlier but received a bunch of errors regarding
named-xfer
> > and non-authoritative in domain.
>
> You don't.  They do.  All you do is make sure that their server name is
> declared in an NS record in the zone.
>
> Now you know why you got all those errors.  ;-)
>
> Some people like to restrict who can do an entire zone transfer.  That
> was just argued roundly in this forum.  Some feel it's more secure,
> others deride security by obscurity.
>
> > 2) Is there anything, as far as setup for 8.2.2 P5, new to change in the
> > named.conf file or other files?
> > I did have this loaded, but had nothing but trouble with it, so I put
8.1.2
> > back on my server, with no problems.
>
> You should put at the head of all zone files:
>
> $TTL N
>
> where N is the number that used to be the last number in your SOA
> record, typically something like 1D (one day) or 86400 (same in
> seconds).
>
> Other than that, there are only (a) added features, and (b) greatly
> increased security, hint, hint.
>
> > 3) To make sure, you do put MX records in your db.domain.com file right?
> > We are still not getting e-mail.
>
> If that's what you call your zone file, then, yes.  Give us a (REAL)
> example of what you are doing, and tell us what you expect of it, and we
> can tell you if that's correct.
>
> --
> Joe Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
> COSPO/OSIS Computer Support EMT-B
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