Hello Robert
I am using Debian Linux 2.1, kernel 2.2.11 and BIND 8.2 to setup a local
caching DNS server.
Nicolai Langfeldt's DNS HOWTO has an example of setting up a caching only
DNS server.
You can post the detaild BIND/DNS questions to the General BIND discussion
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DNS HOWTO
Nicolai Langfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://metalab.unc.edu/linux/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html
Steve Scoggins
KE7RR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Schelander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 6:08 AM
Subject: HAM related DNS problem
> Hi!
>
> I've got a question concerning setting up DNS for a ham tcp server.
>
> First let me tell you our situation. We are a small group of hams
> who want use tcpip. The problem is, that the next tcp/ip server and
> DNS is hundreds of kilometers away and the connection to this
> is one not very fast. (maximum of 4 kbit/s effektively for the near
future)
> So I've built our own server. The only problem now is the DNS
configuration.
>
> We don't have a permanent connection to the internet, so a full lookup
> with the help of the world root servers is not possible. So I've
configured
> named.conf to forward only. But because of the slow connection to this
> forward DNS it is desirable to cache all resolve requests. Another point
is,
> that
> I want to add own names in our address range (44.143.216/24)
> for testing puropses. Because of this I've set the ampr.org zone to
master,
> but this configuration doesn't work the way I want. It's not surprising,
> because I'm neither master nor slave of ampr.org. If I request an ip
> which name is included in ampr.org it works, but for other ampr.org
> names it doesn't forward the request but immediately says that this host
> is not known. Maybe named thinks: if master doesn't know, who else
should -
> and because of this doesn't forward the request.
> The type hint for ampr.org does not work too, because only the root zone
is
> allowed to be a hint zone. What to do now?
> Any ideas? Any other types available which could help?
> Maybe some sort of "type ham_localmaster;" :)
>
> thanks in advance
> Robert
>
>
>
> // named.conf
>
> options {
> directory "/var/named";
>
> forward only;
> forwarders {
> 44.130.56.25;
> };
>
> listen-on port 53 { any; };
> };
>
> /* root zone, don't know whether this is necessary is my case */
> zone "." {
> type hint;
> file "root.hint";
> };
>
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
> type master;
> file "127.0.0.zone";
> };
>
> /* my intranet, works fine */
> zone "sch" {
> notify no;
> type master;
> file "sch";
> allow-query { 192.168.1/24; localhost; };
> allow-transfer { 192.168.1/24; localhost; };
> allow-update { 192.168.1.1; localhost; };
> };
>
> zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
> notify no;
> type master;
> file "192.168.1.zone";
> };
>
> /* ampr.org, does not really work*/
> zone "ampr.org" {
> notify no;
> type master;
> file "ampr.org";
> allow-update { none; };
> allow-transfer { any; };
> allow-query { any; };
> };
>
> zone "44.in-addr.arpa" {
> notify no;
> type master;
> file "44.zone";
> };
>
>
>
>
