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The Monday 2007-05-21 at 12:06 +1000, Registration Account wrote:
> Thanks for your comment. I understand I can trust a cached DNS server to
> just do what is can do without defining zones, however in this case I
> don't want to let it do what it wants to - if I did it would probably
> just ask my ISP DNS servers first and then other local DNS servers.
>
> Why I elected to define external zones is that I wanted a cached answer
> from a source well outside the country - so in some ways I have
> circumvented a situation where a cached answer could come from a local
> source.
You don't need to define any zones to achieve that behaviour.
What you need is playing with the options in /etc/named.conf:
forward first;
forwarders { One_IP; Another_IP; };
with this two lines, the "named" daemon will ask first those DNSs servers
you list there - and you choose them local or in the antipodes. Or remove
those lines and it will always ask the root servers.
But you do not need to define any zone at all.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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