Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 00:32:25 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bind before hosts and iijppp... Message-ID: <199705062332.AAA13884@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 May 1997 20:12:21 %2B0200." <19970506201221.SY61854@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As Brian Somers wrote:
>
> > > Too many people might playingly enable this entry then, it's not a
> > > good idea. Maybe a secondary for `domain.com'. :-)
> >
> > Agreed. I also think a "cheat entry" should be made available, but
> > I wouldn't mind some comments on this.
>
> What about this:
>
> ; Example secondary config entries. It can be convenient to become
> ; a secondary at least for the zone where your own domain is in. Ask
> ; your network administrator for the IP address of the responsible
> ; primary.
> ;
> ; Never forget to include the reverse lookup (IN-ADDR.ARPA) zone!
> ; (This is the first bytes of the respective IP address, in reverse
> ; order, with ".IN-ADDR.ARPA" appended.)
> ;
> ; Before starting to setup a primary zone, better make sure you fully
> ; understand how DNS and BIND works, however. There are sometimes
> ; unobvious pitfalls. Setting up a secondary is comparably simpler.
> ;
> ; NB: Don't blindly comment out the examples below. :-) Use actual
^^^
Don't you mean "in" ?
> ; names and addresses instead.
> ;
> ;type zone name IP of primary backup file name
> ;==================================================================
> ;secondary domain.com 127.0.0.1 domain.com.bak
> ;secondary 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa 127.0.0.1 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.bak
> ;
> ;
> ; If you've got a DNS server around at your upstream provider, enter
> ; its IP address here. This will make you benefit from its cache,
> ; thus reduce overall DNS traffic in the Internet.
> ;
> ;forwarders 127.0.0.1
; If you don't wish to do any DNS searches yourself, use the following
; line to force all non-primary and non-secondary lookups to go to your
; forwarders. You should point your forwarders line at one or more caching
; DNSs if you use this.
options forward-only
> --
> cheers, J"org
>
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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