Temporary dns on a Partitioned Network

[Kevin Darcy]

Well, it's not really "hung up" if it can still resolve queries. And
either it's in daemon mode or it isn't; there isn't any such thing as
being "partially" in daemon mode. Also, the order in which you arrange
"zone" definitions in named.conf isn't particularly important; in my
named.conf files, for instance, the root zone that is supposedly "the
very last part of every named.conf file" is, by my personal preference,
actually the *first* zone definition in the file, and this doesn't cause
any problems whatsoever.

To solve your problem requires specifics:

What does your named.conf look like? (Hopefully you have master
definitions for all of those domains you delegated from the root zone.)
Did you set "min-roots 1" like I suggested?

What's in your logs?


- Kevin

Martin McCormick wrote:

> Joseph S D Yao writes:
> >But you have nothing about root's NS in your "root" zone!  Add
> >.      86400   IN NS   x.cis.okstate.edu.
> >
> >Still, I'm not sure where your name server is hanging.
>
>         Well, part of that was stupidity on my part.  I forgot to
> copy all the zone files over from the working system, but that's
> now fixed.  That let things get a little further along, but they
> still aren't quite right.
>
>         I put a root zone in /usr/local/etc/named.conf and it
> almost works.  I forgot the root zone that is the very last part
> of every named.conf file until I looked at the named.run output
> which was produced if I started it with /usr/local/sbin/named
> -d2.  The output reminded me nicely that zone "." can not be
> redefined.  I took it out and tried again.  No luck.  I moved the
> new root zone to the very last zone position where the cache
> version of "." usually is and tried again.  It still almost
> works.
>
>         While it is hung up, I can do nslookups against this
> server and they succeed for all the domains that are defined.
>
> my rootzone file looks like:
>
> ;
> ;root
> ;
>
> $TTL 86400
> @       IN     SOA  x.cis.okstate.edu. martin.dc.cis.okstate.edu.  (
>                                 2000120603; Serial
>                                     1802; Refresh
>                                     901; Retry
>                                   4838400; Expire
>                                    43200 ) ;Minimum
> .       86400   IN NS   x.cis.okstate.edu.
> okstate.edu.  86400  IN   NS   x.cis.okstate.edu.
> localhost.  86400   IN   NS   x.cis.okstate.edu.
> 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA.  86400   IN   NS   x.cis.okstate.edu.
> 78.139.IN-ADDR.ARPA.  86400   IN   NS   x.cis.okstate.edu.
> 4.198.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA.  86400   IN   NS   x.cis.okstate.edu.
> osuokc.edu.  86400   IN   NS   x.cis.okstate.edu.
>
>         That's pretty much the whole pattern.
>
>         The named.conf file defines all those zones and the new
> root zone is presently placed at the end.
>
>         Any other ideas?  The bind software is incredibly robust,
> but I have succeeded in making it unhappy enough to not go fully
> in to daemon mode.
>
> Martin McCormick