Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 19:25:02 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: unofficial secondary nameserver? Message-ID: <199704050125.TAA12225@nexgen.hiwaay.net>
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At work The Powers That Be who are in charge of the network insist its too much trouble to list a 1500 or so "personal" IP addresses in the official company DNS host (they only have one, no backup). Only "important" machines, and certian "public" machines get listed (about 300 systems last time I looked). They *do* have a database of IP addresses (just the numbers) assigned, to who, room number, telephone, and what kind of system is attached. All (that I know of) company machines that are allowed to pass thru the routers onto the internet are listed in the DNS. Few of the internal machines behind the firewall are listed. Everybody has real IP addresses. Reading the DNS & Bind nutshell book failed to provide an example of what I'm wanting to do. Their examples presumed one had permission to establish a secondary server. And hints updates may flow both directions. If my DNS database got sucked back into the primary there would be a lot of screaming. I don't know enough about it (yet) to know if my concerns are valid or not. Don't particularly care for the company DNS to log errors of any attempts either. Once I have my underground DNS running I'd like to build a web interface to let anybody register any unclaimed name to any IP address automatically. Don't think I'd let it automatically cancel a "registered" entry. Initially will use email requests, http later. Once its running I don't intend to be shy about its presence. Not going to make friends this way with The Powers That Be, but this sillyness has gone on for too many years. First step probably should be to establish a "caching only" server, then modify upon that? Any advise? Examples? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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