Running an undelegated zone

[Barry Margolin]

In article <clq0td$2jd1$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:

> At 06:12 PM 10/27/2004, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> >Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >
> > >For testing purposes, I want to run a zone that is not delegated to me
> > >(Actually an in-addr.arpa zone).
> > >
> > >I have it working on BIND 9, but doing what seems like the equivalent thing
> > >on BIND 8 does not work.
> > >
> >An undelegated zone should work, as long as the client is only sending
> >queries to authoritative servers.
> >
> >When you say "does not work", exactly what results are you getting?
> >NXDOMAIN? Empty answers? SERVFAIL?
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> I was getting nothing in the zone according to the named_dump.db.
> 
> So I unzipped named-checkzone from Bind 9 and ran that by cutting and 
> pasting from my named.conf, and found a typo in the named.conf.

Did it really provide error messages that weren't logged when you 
started named?  Or did you forget to check your log messages before 
posting your original question?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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