Help with BIND 8

[Douglas, Earl S.]

I fully understand that you are supposed to use 'hint' rather than 'master'
for the root zone. The info I provided from our own DNS, and I made it
master for a special case.

PLI 1999

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Oberman [mailto:oberman at es.net]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 11:41 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at uunet.uu.net
Subject: Re: Help with BIND 8


"Douglas, Earl S." <edouglas at kpmg.ca> writes:

> Exactly what is the error message you were getting?
> In order to use root cache file you must define the zone like any other.
> 
> zone "." IN {
>         type master;
>         file "root.hint";
> };

Unless you are REALLY running a root nameserver, the type must be
"hint", not "master".

zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "root.cache";
};

-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net				Phone: +1 510 486-8634



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 RE: Help with BIND 8



I fully understand that you are supposed to use 'hint' rather than 'master'
for the root zone. The info I provided from our own DNS, and I made it
masterfor a special case. 

PLI 1999 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Kevin Oberman [mailto:oberman at es.net[1]] 
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 11:41 AM 
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at uunet.uu.net 
Subject: Re: Help with BIND 8 


"Douglas, Earl S." <edouglas at kpmg.ca> writes: 

>Exactly what is the error message you were getting? 
>In order to use root cache file you must define the zone like any other. 
>
>zone "." IN { 
>         type master; 
>         file "root.hint"; 
>}; 

Unless you are REALLY running a root nameserver, the type must be 
"hint", not "master". 

zone "." { 
        type hint; 
        file "root.cache"; 
}; 

-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer 
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) 
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) 
E-mail: oberman at es.net                          Phone: +1 510 486-8634 

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