Hiding NS Records

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:37 AM -0500 3/16/01, Smith, William E. (Bill), Jr. wrote:

>  We are running a secondary name server(for testing purposes) whose NS record
>  we want to hide from the outside world.  It's behind a firewall so queries
>  against it won't get a response; however, we would just like to have the NS
>  record for that server removed altogether.  Is it possible to do this? If
>  so, what is the syntax. I've done some searching and haven't come across
>  anything...obvious at least to address this.

	Sure, just don't list that machine.  It will know that it is 
primary for that domain (or set of domains) through the 
/etc/named.conf file, and doesn't need to show up in the SOA record 
or as one of the advertised NS RRs at all.

	No problem.

--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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