Hi Ceri, Thanks for getting back to me (Nick as well!), and sorry about the "top-post" for this one.
>From what I've learnt here, it would seem as if I've not thought this
one out completely, and haven't got the "right kind" of nameserver
set-up.
You mentioned that it'd be better to explain what I would like to
achieve: I'd like to have a named set-up that allows me to host DNS
information for my private lan, but also one that facilitates name
resolution of external hosts (via my ISP's upstream NS's).
What I did was "literally" follow the handbook with respect to even the
naming convention used, so that /etc/namedb has this:
# ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Oct 12 10:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 2048 Oct 12 10:33 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 427 Jul 24 07:31 PROTO.localhost-v6.rev
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 423 Sep 18 2001 PROTO.localhost.rev
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 15 20:51 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 12 10:41 dev
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 15 20:35 etc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1032 Jul 24 07:32 make-localhost
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 15 20:36 master
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Sep 15 20:35 named.conf ->
etc/named.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2843 Oct 12 10:30 named.root
drwxr-xr-x 2 bind bind 512 Sep 15 20:34 slave
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Sep 15 20:34 var
#
With the following in /etc/namedb/etc:
# ls -la /etc/namedb/etc
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 15 20:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Oct 12 10:30 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1323 Sep 15 20:35 localtime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3544 Sep 15 21:14 named.conf
#
..., and the only zone file I have at the moment is a copy of that
suggested in the handbook:
# more named.localhost
$ORIGIN localhost.
$TTL 6h
@ IN SOA localhost. postmaster.localhost. (
1 ; serial
3600 ; refresh
1800 ; retry
604800 ; expiration
3600 ) ; minimum
IN NS localhost.
IN A 127.0.0.1
#
What I'd appreciate is information on whether or not I can adjust my
bind set-up so as to achieve my intentions from where I am at the
moment.
Thanks so much for taking the time (both of you).
Stacey
<snip>
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 20:14, Ceri Davies wrote:
> I think that's the case.
> A caching nameserver will only query other nameservers, so nobody else is
> serving DNS for your local machines, then you'll need to.
>
> > I'm willing to post my named.conf file and any others that might prove
> > helpful to anyone willing to help. Not sure what will be of use at this
> > point, so do let me know, please.
>
> Let us know exactly what you want first ;)
>
> Ceri
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