Trying to setup a new primary BIND DNS

Dan Du Vall sysop at quadtrax.com
Mon Jul 9 22:27:54 UTC 2001


Ok Here is what i have done since I am totaly screwup with this thing I have
set the bind server back to a cache server the way it was after instaling
redhat 7. What is the first thing i need to do?
"Barry Margolin" <barmar at genuity.net> wrote in message
news:9idah2$juo at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> In article <9id911$jme at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> Klinkefus, David S <DSKlinkefus at midamerican.com> wrote:
> >I agree with Barry, but with a few nslookup's, from here
> >it looks like there is no reverse entry (PTR record) for
> >ns.quadtrax.net.
>
> ns.quadtrax.net's address is 216.216.115.27, and the following reverse
> entry exists for that address:
>
> 27.115.216.216.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR  www.quadtrax.com.
>
> This isn't quite right because www.quadtrax.com is a CNAME record, not an
A
> record.  But I doubt that would cause any problems.
>
> BTW, nothing except the nslookup command even cares if there's a reverse
> entry for a nameserver's address.  And even nslookup doesn't care whether
> the reverse entry points back to the name in the NS record.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> Genuity, Burlington, MA
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