Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:52:12 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow) Cc: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Nameserver and 'rlogin' in 2.1.5. Message-ID: <199608161952.MAA03216@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.UW2.3.95.960816105921.21765D-100000@cedb> from "Dan Busarow" at Aug 16, 96 11:05:36 am
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> Change your db.cache. Listing the real root servers doesn't buy you > anything but trouble if your not connected. Take out the real roots > and put in pointers to your own name servers. > > According to DNS & BIND you should set up your own internal root server > which is only slightly more work, but I did it via db.cache when I was > UUCP connected and it seemed to work fine. > > However, that was several years and revisions of named ago so the cache > trick may no longer work. Worst case, make yourself primary for . and > add a db.root that looks a whole lot like db.water (see Internal Roots in > DNS & BIND for details). config_net? Partial decision tree: START ASK "Do you have an internet connection?" YES -> YES_IC NO -> NO_IC YES_IC ASK "Is your connection up all the time?" YES -> PERM_IC NO -> TRAN_IC PERM_IC TRAN_IC . NO_IC ASK "Do you have a local network?" YES -> CFG_LC NO -> END_A CFG_LC ASK "Are you going to centrally administer host/address assignment?" YES -> CFG_LC1 NO -> CFG_EH CFG_LC1 ASK "Is this machine going to be the primary administrator?" YES -> CFG_DNS ( primary ) NO -> CFG_LC2 CFG_LC2 ASK "Is this machine going to be a backup for the primary?" YES -> CFG_DNS ( secondary ) NO -> CFG_DNS ( client ) CFG_EH // configure /etc/hosts... END_A SAY "You should not to run config_net" STOP
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