named configuration

[Chris Buxton]

On Jan 8, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Oliver Block wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2009 19:10:58 schrieben Sie:
>> If you instead just want to create sub.mydomain.org in the
>> mydomain.org zone, all you have to do is add the allow-update (or
>> update-policy) statement to your zone statement on the master.
>
> If I've understood the facts right, I have to update the master. The  
> problem
> is that I have no control on the master, right? When I do a 'dig  
> mydomain.org
> ns' the nameserver that is received are the nameservers of my isp --  
> even if
> I have my own vServer. So will it have any effect if I set up an own  
> named?
> The nameserver on my maschine was preconfigured but it seems that it  
> will
> never be queried. (According to my the dns response in my former  
> posting.)

You are correct. In order to manage your zone via dynamic update, you  
must ask your ISP to enable the feature on their name server.

They may have some other method to allow you to manage the DNS records  
for your server.

Chris Buxton
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