Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 08:41:16 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Martin" <Martin.Zibert1@guest.arnes.si>, "Len Conrad" <lconrad@Go2France.com> Cc: <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: primary and secondary nameserver Message-ID: <012b01bfb875$6be000b0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> References: <4.3.1.2.20000507194808.00c2aab0@mail.Go2France.com>
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I'm afraid Len is correct in his harping on the DNS & BIND book for anyone wanting to take charge of their own name servers ... I tend to question the purchase of yet another $75 (in OZ) book when all I require is a paragraph or two out of it. At at least this particular book appears to contain information on the majority of the countless minor but critical steps essential to the DNS / BIND saga, which is more than can be said for most of the other documentation on the subject !!. As is typical of most everything with unix, the stuff is unbelievably simple ... its just the terse documentation that makes unfamiliar issues so incomprehensible to those of us unfortunate enough to not be an expert. There is another extremely simple and almost totally non-technical alternative which provides both secondary DNS without the requirement of ISP approval .... providing of course one owns the rights to a "full" domain ie something like "http://www.blah.com". This is to use the services of one of the free DNS services such as granitecanyon.com or centralinfo.net. It appears that granitecanyon.com has struck some sort of problem in recent months as updates take forever & there's no means of communications with the providers .... even most of the relevant newsgroups are either down or the moderators block postings with a reference to granitecanyon, however centralinfo.net certainly looks to be very efficient & even newbie-friendly. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <lconrad@Go2France.com> To: "Martin" <Martin.Zibert1@guest.arnes.si> Cc: <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 4:02 AM Subject: Re: primary and secondary nameserver > > >I don't know what that means, but lets say that's ok. BTW: what's that > >"." for ? > > unixspeak for "root", the root of the DNS is the ?.root-servers.net listed > in the db.cache file. > > >That, there is localhost > > zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { > > type master; > > file "localhost.rev"; > > }; > > The cricket book sets the conventions for file names for BIND8, imo: The > database files look like: > > db.127.0.0 > > >.. this probably isn't right (i think so). I should remove > >"0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" and replace it with "207.x.194.IN-ADDR.ARPA" > >right ? > > Go buy the cricket book. You can find it here: > > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com > > I have sample config files on the download page. They work for BIND on any OS. > > zone "mydomain.com" { > >type master; > >..than what ?.. > > keep going ... ; NOTIFY yes; allow-transfer { ip.ad.re.ss;}; > > where that is the ip of the ISP's slave DNS. > > >should it be just like localhost or what ? If i am > >picturing this correctly, for primary ns there should be just a line for > >domain name, another line for type and another one for file > > it's only cosmetic because I edit my config files with Allaire homesite, > but I put a zone statement on one line. If you're editing on a 80-col > terminal, do otherwise. > > >where every > >pointer, "A", "MX" is ? > > whoa, go buy the cricket book. Those types of records go in the zone file > db.domain.com > > >mydomain.com. IN SOA ns.mydomain.com > > $TTL 86400 > $ORIGIN domain.com. > @ IN SOA ns.mydomain.com ns-admin.mydomai.com ( numbers ) > > > >..and.. > > > >mydomain.com. IN NS ns.mydomain.com. > >mydomain.com. IN NS ns.myispdomain.com. > > > >..is this right ?? > > @ IN NS ns.mydomain.com. > @ IN NS ns.myispdomain.com. > > > > I want to have primary ns, but my ISP will have > >secondary.. so is this configured right ? > > you're not far off, but go buy the cricket book. chirp chirp > > >And for later on.. i should define the ip of myispdomain.com right ? > > no, your ns isn' authoritative for his domain. > > > >OK that would be all. Thanks to all of you who will help me.. I really > >don't know how to set up this things.. > > visit my site, it's got plenty of info, buy the cricket book, then you'll > be a DNS guru. > check the links out on my resources page, and join the BIND users list. > > Your English is fine. But your DNS isn't, yet!! vbg > > Len > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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