On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 10:39, Carla Schroder wrote:
> OK I'm back with a thrilling installment of 'DNS Barbie says BIND is hard!'
>
> disclaimer: I do not use bind for real! I just need to test stuff for a bind
> howto. djbdns forever! w00t. etc.
>
> I have a caching server on one machine, and my authoritative server for my
> domain on a different machine, like good and wise DNS admins are supposed to
> do. This is my named.conf for the caching server:
>
>
> //
> // sample BIND configuration file
> //
>
> options {
> // tell named where to find files mentioned below
> directory "/var/named";
> // on a multi-homed host, you might want to tell named
> // to listen for queries only on certain interfaces
> listen-on { 127.0.0.1; 10.11.12.0/24; }
> }
>
> // The single dot (.) is the root of all DNS namespace, so
> // this zone tells named where to start looking for any
> // name on the Internet
> zone "." IN {
> // a hint type means that we've got to look elsewhere
> // for authoritative information
> type hint;
> file "named.root";
> };
>
> // Where the localhost hostname is defined
> zone "localhost" IN {
> // a master type means that this server needn't look
> // anywhere else for information; the localhost buck
> // stops here.
> type master;
> file "zone.localhost";
> // don't allow dynamic DNS clients to update info
> // about the localhost zone
> allow-update { none; };
> };
>
> // Where the 127.0.0.0 network is defined
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
> type master;
> file "revp.127.0.0";
> allow-update { none; };
> };
>
>
> On the authoritative server, do I still need to include the root zone entry?
> Seems to me that should belong only to the caching server.
>
> Thanks!Good question. I've usually kept a root zone on the authoritative server. I believe that you can go with out this..assuming no clients are using the authoritative server for DNS lookups. It's one of those issues where it will help speed it up a little bit on startup but it doesn't really hurt the machine. One question is, does the authoritative server use itself or the caching server for nslookups? -Robby -- /*************************************** * Robby Russell | Owner.Developer.Geek * PLANET ARGON | www.planetargon.com * Portland, OR | [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 503.351.4730 | blog.planetargon.com * PHP/PostgreSQL Hosting & Development ****************************************/
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