other experiments

[Quadri, Jay]

Do you agree with this:
1.Slave zone takes  precedence over the root server,i.e slave statement is
like the 'GOTO' in the old Pascal programs.  The authoritative server looks
in its own zone file if it can't find the request, it looks in the slave
zones, if it can't find the request in the slave, then uses the hint file
in-order to query the root server. 
The order is this:
a. own zone
b. slave zones
c. hints file or in my case master (for internal root server)


2. Do agree that Internic root servers have nothing in their hints file.

3. When you register a domain name with Internic, can you summarise what
files gets updated on the internic root server.  My mind keeps conflicting
on this.

4.
Content of my hint file on the root server (intra.net: 10.50.1.5) , in this
case it's not hint file it's defined as type master in the named.conf  on my
internal root server

.       IN      SOA     global-dnsa.intra.net.        dns-admin.intra.net.
(
                                15      ; serial
                                10800   ; Refresh after 3hrs
                                3600    ; retry after 1 hr
                                604800  ; Expire after 1 Week
                                86400   ; Minimum TTL of 1 day

        IN      NS      global-dnsa.intra.net.


intra.net.            86400  IN      A       10.50.1.5
intra.net.    86400   IN      NS      global-dnsa.intra.net.

annika.intra.net.        86400   IN      NS      annika.intra.net.
jayuk.intra.net.        86400  IN      NS      jayuk.intra.net.
annika.intra.net.    60400  IN      A            142.135.132.202
iris.intra.net.    60400  IN      A            142.135.132.222
jayuk.intra.net.    60400  IN      A            148.185.50.51

15.1.10.in-addr.arpa   86400   IN      NS      jayuk.intra.net.
132.135.142.in-addr.arpa    86400   IN      NS      annika.intra.net.

;is it alright to do this, with co.uk zone
other.co.uk.                 804800  IN      NS   wtnv16.other.co.uk.
                         60400  IN      A     135.185.11.5
185.148.in-addr.arpa   86400   IN      NS      wtnv16.other.co.uk.

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On other server such as annika and jayuk the contents of the hint file is :
; named.root
.                                3600000  IN NS    intra.net.
intra.net                      3600000  IN A     10.50.1.5