FW: Setting up full DNS on an intranet

[Kevin Darcy]

The master file for a root zone is really no different than for any other zone.
As for named.conf configuration, that isn't really much different either:

zone "." {
    type master;
    file "root";   /* Or whatever you want */
};

or

zone "." {
    type slave;
    file "root";          /* Or whatever */
    masters {
        x.x.x.x; /* Address of master */
        y.y.y.y; /* Address of some other slave, for redundancy */
    };
};


                                                                        - Kevin


Belluco, Giuseppe (Johannesburg) wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Belluco, Giuseppe (Johannesburg)
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 7:54 AM
> To: 'Kevin Darcy'
> Subject: RE: Setting up full DNS on an intranet
>
> Thanks for that.
> But how exactly do you set up a root server or a root zone?
> I would appreciate it if you could give me an example.
>
> Giuseppe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Darcy [mailto:kcd at daimlerchrysler.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 3:47 AM
> To: 'bind-users at isc.org'
> Subject: Re: Setting up full DNS on an intranet
>
> Your nameservers, assuming they are BIND, really need to have access to root
> zone information, otherwise they will whine and complain in the logs. So you
> should set up a small root zone on your network. If you then delegate
> domainA.co.za and domainB.co.za from this "internal root", then all of the
> servers with those root servers defined as "hints" will be able to resolve
> names in those zones. Additionally, you could set up one or both zones as
> "slave", "stub" or "forward" on certain non-masters: once your internal root
> is
> set up and the delegations added, this isn't really necessary for basic
> query-resolution functionality, but may enhance performance and/or
> availability
> of the zone data.
>
> - Kevin
>
> Belluco, Giuseppe (Johannesburg) wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I am trying to test something and I need to simulate two differnet domains
> > that can talk to each other.
> >
> > I want to set up a primary dns server with the name test.domainA.co.za
> with
> > an IP of 192.168.0.1
> > Then I want to set up another Primary DNS Server with the name
> > test2.domainB.co.za with an IP of 192.168.0.2
> >
> > If the test pc gets a dns query for test2 in domainB I want it to be able
> to
> > resolv it.
> > So I need the test.domainA.co.za pc and the test2.domainB.co.za server to
> > know about each other.
> > So if iam on the pc test and I type nslookup 192.168.0.2 it must connect
> > through to the test2 pc in domainB and resolv the request.
> >
> > All this is only going to be set up on an intranet with no internet
> > connection.
> > I have also commented out the hints section on the named.conf file,
> because
> > we have no root servers. Is this correct?
> >
> > Any help appreciated
> >
> > Giuseppe