Must I have "." zone?
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Sat Jul 24 00:07:54 UTC 1999
In article <492488423.932764276214.JavaMail.qtran at hutch.East.Sun.COM>,
<Christine.Tran at East.Sun.COM> wrote:
> Q1) Must I have a "." zone and a hint file even when I don't use it?
> If yes, can I put any fool thing in the hint file?
Yes and yes. You should put "forward only;" in the options section to
prevent your server from ever trying to contact the root servers.
> Q2) I am reading DNS&BInd 3rd.Ed p 387 about Internal Roots and I
> don't have a large name space, nor lots of internal name servers, nor
> are they geographically distributed. I don't want to create internal
> roots. Why won't my forward pb.com statement work without them?
You only forward for zones you're not authoritative for. If you configure
yourself as a root server, then you're authoritative for everything that
you don't explicitly delegate away, so you won't forwad.
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