simple bind question(?)

[Kevin Darcy]

BIND 8.1.2 has horrible security holes. Upgrade.

This isn't really an NT-DNS list, but isn't NT-DNS capable of *selectively* slaving? You should be
able to slave any or all of the zones.


- Kevin

ron beamer wrote:

> sorry about the blank post.  too much coffee, and too little sleep.
> my questions probally easy, but not that easy.
>
> I am running bind 8.1.2, and working my way through dns & bind, thought
> i'd set up the dns correctly for a sco box i'm working on. However, been
> reading the listings from other newbies to bind, I realize my config is
> incorrect, and am not sure what exactly i'm missing.
> I have one host, on a network (subnetted class c)with 2 other namesevers.
>
> on the sco box i was thinking i set up all the domains i'm hosting as
> primary zones.  Each one had there own db. file with the soa, ns, a, mx
> and cname records in it.  I also have a in-addr.arpa db with all the prt
> records in it.
> In named.conf I have all the domains listed correctly as primarys.
> Everything resolves, but  i realized  when i got ready to config an nt
> server as a slave  for the sco that the only thing that was going to get
> backed up was the parent zone.
> what i'm wanting is to set up the "virtual domains" up, with the host as
> the parent.  what am i missing?
> one other question.  is it possible to set up just one zone as a slave
> (the in-addr.arpa zone for example?
>