Re: how to setup a local root nameserver?

2010-02-02 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:03:32AM -0500, Joe Baptista wrote: ... > > instance, this had better be the name server, as well! NO OTHER IP ... You know, when I wrote this I was thinking of the recommended separate resolving name server from authoritative name server. But in the case our friend fr

Re: how to setup a local root nameserver?

2010-02-02 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:05:12PM +0100, fddi wrote: > thank you for the precious suggestion > > I just missed the * hint :) > > so my configuration was almost done. > > here is the final configuration and it works... > thanks to all I'm amazed that this works. Oh, I see why - it thinks that

Re: Having multiple name servers - is it really necessary

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 2/2/2010 5:25 PM, Rob Tanner wrote: Hi, We have two registered name servers to answer internet queries. One is on site and the other is a service of our ISP. The problem is that every once in a while the secondary server doesn't successfully complete zone transfers and the data expires.

Re: Having multiple name servers - is it really necessary

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 2, 2010 2:25:50 PM -0800 Rob Tanner wrote: cached (i.e. Is no data treated the same as bad data by upstream bind servers? I didn't entirely follow your ramble (paragraphs would have helped), but it's not BIND or other nameservers that would be the real problem, it's the application

Having multiple name servers - is it really necessary

2010-02-02 Thread Rob Tanner
Hi, We have two registered name servers to answer internet queries. One is on site and the other is a service of our ISP. The problem is that every once in a while the secondary server doesn¹t successfully complete zone transfers and the data expires. I¹m not sure what technically how the serve

Re: how to setup a local root nameserver?

2010-02-02 Thread fddi
thank you for the precious suggestion I just missed the * hint :) so my configuration was almost done. here is the final configuration and it works... thanks to all $TTL86400 $ORIGIN . @ 1D IN SOA @ root ( 42 ;

Re: how to setup a local root nameserver?

2010-02-02 Thread Joe Baptista
see my comments below ... On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Joseph S D Yao wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:50:56AM +0100, fddi wrote: > > Hello, > > I need to setup a local named configuration so that ANY request will be > > resolved > > to a specific single IP only. > > > > I mean any kind of

Re: how to setup a local root nameserver?

2010-02-02 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:50:56AM +0100, fddi wrote: > Hello, > I need to setup a local named configuration so that ANY request will be > resolved > to a specific single IP only. > > I mean any kind of DNS resolutin request > > www.luth.se > www.isc.org > www.anything.tld > > should be resolve