Configuring DNS in Fedora core 6

[Damas Ally]

thanks,
i will try to follow up your suggestion but my servers are installed with
no GUI...its only command line, by the way its my idea of running all my
servers with FC6,let me try to create named.conf file from the one you
suggested and back to you.
regards.
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Damas A.M
National ISP Manager
Mob: +255 784 582786 / 464678
Page: www.juasun.net
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> Damas Ally napsal(a):
>> Greetings Adam, Evan and others,
>> thanks for your ideas....sorry for delay happened,i was in field for
>> some
>> days ....now i am back.
>> Pls find the sample of my last conf in both master dns and slave dns:-
>>
>>
>> master dns (fedora core 1, bind 9.2.2, kernel
>> 2.4.22-1.2199.nptlsmp)...the
>> named.conf file is placed at /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf,some of
>> the
>> details are :-
>>
>> // generated by named-bootconf.pl
>>
>> options {
>>         directory "/var/named";
>>         /*
>>          * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
>>          * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
>>          * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
>>          * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
>>          * port by default.
>>          */
>>         query-source address * port 53;
>>         notify yes;
>> };
>>
>> //
>> // a caching only nameserver config
>> //
>> controls {
>>         inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
>> };
>> zone "." IN {
>>         type hint;
>>         file "named.ca";
>> };
>>
>> zone "sample.com" IN {
>>         type master;
>>         file "sample.com.zone";
>>         allow-update { none; };
>>         allow-transfer { ip of slave; };
>> .......
>> .......
>> ......
>>
>> zone "x.x.x.in-addr.arpa" IN {
>>         type master;
>>         file "sample.com.rr.zone";
>>         allow-update { none; };
>>         allow-transfer { ip of slave; };
>> };
>>
>> include "/etc/rndc.key";
>>
>> Then,
>> Slave dns (fedora core 3, bind 9.2.5, kernel 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3smp)
>> named.conf file is at /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf ....some of its
>> details:-
>>
>> //
>> // named.conf for Red Hat caching-nameserver
>> //
>>
>> options {
>>         directory "/var/named";
>>         dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
>>         statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
>>         /*
>>          * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
>>          * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
>>          * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
>>          * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
>>          * port by default.
>>          */
>>         query-source address * port 53;
>> };
>>
> First, about using FC-1 and FC-3 bind. Those Fedoras aren't supported
> now so it doesn't contains security fixes etc. It's strongly recomended
> use Fedora 6 at least (or bind from there) if you want have fixes for
> all known CVEs.
>> //
>> // a caching only nameserver config
>> //
>> controls {
>>         inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
>> zone "." IN {
>>         type hint;
>>         file "named.ca";
>> };
>>
>> zone "sample.com" IN {
>>         type slave;
>>         masters { ip of master; };
>>         file "sample.com.zone";
>>         allow-update { none; };
>> };
>> .........
>> ..........
>> zone "x.x.x.in-addr.arpa" IN {
>>         type slave;
>>         masters { ip of master; };
>>         file "sample.com.rr.zone";
>>         allow-update { none; };
>> };
>>
>>
>> With that settings my dns are communicating to each other where by the
>> master transfer zone files to slave with no prob,
>> Now,i installed my slave dns with fedora core 6 is where i am getting
>> confusion with named.conf files as they are about two:-
>> cmd find / -name named.conf, get the following result
>> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/named.conf
>> /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/named.conf
>>
> Those upper 2 files isn't named config files. It's for named + D-BUS and
> logwatch + named cooperation.
>> /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.4/sample/etc/named.conf
>> /usr/share/system-config-bind/profiles/default/named.conf
>>
>> The file /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.4/sample/etc/named.conf and the file
>> /usr/share/system-config-bind/profiles/default/named.conf one of them is
>> the file to deal with configuration....can someone help me which one is
>> the correct file? regarding with the above intro on how my dns used to
>> work?
>> regards!
>>
> You could use what you want :)
> /usr/share/system-config-bind/profiles/default/named.conf is used by
> system-config-bind (GUI utility for creating named's configuration) to
> generate default /etc/named.conf.
> /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.4/sample/etc/named.conf is more advanced sample
> of /etc/named.conf. Use info from those files and create your own
> /etc/named.conf
>
> Adam
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>> Damas A.M
>> National ISP Manager
>> Mob: +255 784 582786 / 464678
>> Page: www.juasun.net
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>>
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