Re: How to create a fake root server?

2014-03-13 Thread Peter
Hi Kevin, Thanks for your reply. It's just for a closed internal network with no access to the rest of the internet. Making labs such as testing ISP functions and services, mail servers etc. Everything is running inside an VMware host with an internal closed network. I have created a closed

Re: How to create a fake root server?

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 53216b43.8040...@gmail.com, Peter writes: Hi Kevin, Thanks for your reply. It's just for a closed internal network with no access to the rest of the internet. Making labs such as testing ISP functions and services, mail servers etc. Everything is running inside an VMware host

Re: How to create a fake root server?

2014-03-13 Thread Peter
I finally managed to configure a TLD DNS server which will answer, in its own CLI, with proper IP:s for added domains. The problem is that it doesn't reply to the other querying Domain DNS servers when they are asking for domain lookups to it. I can only do lookups inside the TLD DNS server.

Re: How to create a fake root server?

2014-03-13 Thread Kevin Darcy
Either set up a *root* zone, with a delegation to your TLD, and those other nameservers will be configured with hints files or You'll have to use some other mechanism -- e.g. slave, stub -- on those nameservers, so that they know how to resolve names in your TLD. - Kevin On

Re: How to create a fake root server?

2014-03-13 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Had to think for a moment on how we got our own TLD to work The answer is that all our resolvers, including the localhost resolvers for machines in 10.x.x.x space. Don't recall if it was related to this or not...but these localhost resolvers also use forward first; I had at one time tried