Setting up a private TLD

[bill]

for bind 9.

zone "pri" { type master, file "your-name-here/PRI" };


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> Can anyone give me pointers on how to set up a private TLD in BIND?
> 
> I've got a small Windows network that I'm having a problem on and I think
> that if I can set up the TLD on my BIND servers it may fix it.  The problem
> is that I'm having occasional difficulty authenticating users against the
> domain controller.  I'm thinking that this could be because the two member
> servers try to use their local BIND servers to resolve host names in
> "mydomain.pri".  The BIND servers don't permit outside recursive queries, but
> do permit them from the local network, for instance when the SMTP server
> needs to look up MX records.
> 
> The network looks something like the following.
> 
> Machine A
>  - Windows 2000 domain controller
>  - Windows domain name "mydomain.pri"
>  - running Win2k DNS for mydomain.pri
>  - NIC 1: public IP address x.y.z.1
>  - NIC 2: private IP address 192.168.0.1
> 
> Machine B
>  - Windows 2000 member server
>  - Email server
>  - running BIND 9 as master authoritative server for 200 zones
>  - NIC 1: public IP address x.y.z.2
>  - NIC 2: private IP address 192.168.0.2
> 
> Machine C
>  - Windows 2000 member server
>  - Web server
>  - running BIND 9 as slave for 200 zones
>  - NIC 1: public IP address x.y.z.3
>  - NIC 2: private IP address 192.168.0.3
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