Bind 8.2.3 P5 on Solaris 2.7

[Kevin Darcy]

It's not at all clear to me what you're trying to do here. Please clearly state which machines
should receive mail for which names.

Are you using "hi" and "hawaii" interchangeably?

What do you mean when you say that hawaii "[should] use molokai as [its] name server and still
use the same ip scheme"? Do you mean that hawaii has only a stub resolver setup and you want it
to resolve queries using molokai? That's purely a matter of how you configure your
"TCP/IP properties" (or whatever the NT equivalent may be) on the local machine; it has nothing
to do with the data you put into your DNS zones. Or, is hawaii running its own nameserver? In
that case, you shouldn't need to worry about what nameserver it will use for "goo.palo.net" --
since there is only 1 NS record for the zone (not very robust, by the way -- that's a single
point of failure), it will always use that one. As for using "the same ip scheme": DNS is
basically a database; it doesn't care what IP scheme you use. Just make sure the right names
point to the right machines.

Moreover, is "goo.palo.net" a *delegated* subzone of "palo.net"? If not, then the MX records,
A records, etc. for the "goo.palo.net" subdomain need to be in the "palo.net" zone. Similarly,
the "goop.palo.net" subdomain either needs to be delegated as a subzone of "palo.net", or all of
its MX, A records, etc. need to be included in the "palo.net" zone. You can't just set up a zone
on your nameserver without any delegation and expect the rest of the world to be able to find
it.


- Kevin

Sabrina Fallorina wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My supervisor built an NT machine named hawaii (and some of this info has to
> substitute the real thing). Our name server is molokai. We are on the
> goo.palo.net. He wants to build a mail server on hawaii that will us the
> goop.palo.net and still wants to use molokai as his name server and still
> use the same ip scheme.
>
> Should I add a db.goop entry to the named.conf file? what "type" do I use if
> I do? master?
>
> How should my entries in the db.goo.palo.net files look for the MX entries
> and what other entries do I need to make for the machine HI?
> Should I put a CNAME entry in the db.goo.palo.net file? Anyway, here are our
> files. Please help.
>
> Sabrina
>
> Here's the db.goo.palo.net file
>
> $TTL 86400
> ; SOA rec
> goo.palo.net.   IN      SOA     molokai.goo.palo.net. sabrina.molokai.goo.palo.net. (
>                         2001022304
>                         10800
>                         5400
>                         604800
>                         86400 )
> ;
>                         IN NS   molokai.goo.palo.net.
> ;
> goo.palo.net.           IN MX   10 molokai.goo.palo.net.
> ;
> molokai                 IN A    123.456.789.1
> lanai                   IN A    123.456.789.2
> router                  IN A    123.456.789.3
> hi                      IN A    123.456.789.25
>
> >>>Here's what I think the db.goop.palo.net file should look like if I need
> >>>one.
>
> $ORIGIN goop.palo.net.
> @                       1D IN SOA       molokai.goo.palo.net. sabrina.molokai.goo.palo.net. (
>                                         2001022300      ; serial
>                                         3H              ; refresh
>                                         1h30m           ; retry
>                                         1W              ; expiry
>                                         1D )            ; minimum
>
>                         1D IN NS        molokai.goo.palo.net.
>                         1D IN MX        10 hi
> hi                      1D IN A         123.456.789.25
> dns                     1D IN CNAME     molokai.goo.palo.net.
> router          1D IN A         123.456.789.3
>
> >>>Finally, should there be an entry for hawaii in our db.789.456.123 file?
>
> >>>By the way. Does anyone know where I can get some step by step guidance
> >>>on how to load and configure the new Bind 9.1?
>
> Sabrina
>
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