Temporary dns on a Partitioned Network

[Kevin Darcy]

Set up your own internal root zone. If you have only 1 internal root server --
not recommended -- you probably will want to specify "min-roots 1" in your
options statement in order to keep named from complaining about it.


- Kevin

Martin McCormick wrote:

>         We will be temporarily installing a Sun Sparc running
> bind8.2.2pl7 on a network which must stay up internally while the
> rest of our backbone is being upgraded.  In other words, all the
> systems in that building must talk to each other even if they
> can't communicate over the Internet or to the rest of the campus.
>
>         I have seen our name servers hang when we have lost
> Internet connectivity and I figured it was due to the inability
> to contact root name servers.  Is there anything I can do to make
> bind happy and continue to provide service to these
> local systems?
>
>         This will basically be a closed internal network for a
> day or so with no opportunity to communicate with any other sites
> than those in the building.