Configuring Bind for use with OpenNIC

[Marc C Storck]

Why that???
if you slave a zone and you are not the master, you don't notify any
server!!!
(Of course you should not set notify-also.... but that's not required by
OpenNIC)
And BTW OpenNIC only requires this for TLD Operators who want to be listed
and included in OpenNIC

Marc

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com>
To: <comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: Configuring Bind for use with OpenNIC


>
> Why on earth would OpenNIC want everyone to be a slave of the root zone?
Don't
> they realize that whenever the root zone changes, this means *everyone*
who is
> running a recent version of BIND will NOTIFY *all* of the root
nameservers? I
> suspect they're getting swamped with NOTIFY traffic every time they change
the
> zone. Bad design decision, I'd say.
>
>
> - Kevin
>
> cbiesinger at web.de wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> > At the moment, I'm trying to configure my bind for use with OpenNIC
> > (http://www.opennic.unrated.net if you're interested).
> > It's supposed to be mostly a caching nameserver, but also serving one
> > local domain.
> >
> > Now, the Problem I have is that now and then Bind stops answering
> > queries. The log doesn't seem to contain unusual messages, but here
> > are some lines which might relate to this problem:
> > Jul  4 19:47:56 chello212186200128 named[17066]: Sent NOTIFY for " IN
> > SOA 2001052201" (); 8 NS, 8 A
> > Jul  4 19:54:15 chello212186200128 named[17066]: ns_forw:
> > query(www.parody) All possible A RR's lame
> >
> > The version is: named 8.2.4-REL-NOESW Fri Jun  1 01:18:38 MDT 2001
> >
> > My config file is as follows: (The file /etc/bind/tld-root exists & is
> > the one from http://www.opennic.unrated.net/server.html)
> >
> > // This is the primary configuration file for the BIND DNS server named.
> > //
> > // Please read /usr/share/doc/bind/README.Debian for information on the
> > // structure of BIND configuration files in Debian for BIND versions
8.2.1
> > // and later, *BEFORE* you customize this configuration file.
> > //
> >
> > options {
> >         directory "/var/cache/bind";
> >         listen-on { 192.168.1.1; };
> >
> >         // If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
> >         // to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
> >         // directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
> >         // questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 and later use an
unprivileged
> >         // port by default.
> >
> >         // query-source address * port 53;
> >
> >         // If your ISP provided one or more IP addresses for stable
> >         // nameservers, you probably want to use them as forwarders.
> >         // Uncomment the following block, and insert the addresses
replacing
> >         // the all-0's placeholder.
> >
> >         // forwarders {
> >         //      0.0.0.0;
> >         // };
> > };
> >
> > // reduce log verbosity on issues outside our control
> > logging {
> >         category lame-servers { null; };
> >         category cname { null; };
> > };
> >
> > // prime the server with knowledge of the root servers
> > zone "." {
> > //        type hint;
> > //        file "/etc/bind/db.root";
> > // Adding OpenNIC support (http://www.opennic.unrated.net)
> > // (Wed Jul  4 19:35:12 CEST 2001)
> >         type slave;
> >         file "/etc/bind/tld-root";
> >         masters { 216.74.72.5; 165.251.126.11; 209.21.75.52; };
> > };
> >
> > // be authoritative for the localhost forward and reverse zones, and for
> > // broadcast zones as per RFC 1912
> >
> > zone "localhost" {
> >         type master;
> >         file "/etc/bind/db.local";
> > };
> >
> > zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {
> >         type master;
> >         file "/etc/bind/db.127";
> > };
> >
> > zone "0.in-addr.arpa" {
> >         type master;
> >         file "/etc/bind/db.0";
> > };
> >
> > zone "255.in-addr.arpa" {
> >         type master;
> >         file "/etc/bind/db.255";
> > };
> >
> > // add entries for other zones below here
> >
> > zone "biesinger.at" {
> >         type master;
> >         file "/etc/bind/db.biesinger.at";
> > };
> >
> > zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
> >         type master;
> >         file "/etc/bind/db.192";
> > };
> >
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