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Ian Northeast wrote:

> Do you want a caching or a forwarding DNS? A caching DNS will not cache
> off any DNS in particular, it makes reference to the root nameservers
> directly, using a hints file. Red Hat ship bind configured as a caching
> (only) DNS by default, I don't know if Mandrake do. The clause that sets
> up a caching DNS is:
> 
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "named.ca";
> };

yep .. thats how its set up by default .. mandrake is just dedrat with
KDE on top. But you're right .. I don;t want that ...


> Forwarding is different; the nameserver doesn't know the root
> nameservers but instead forwards all requests it cannot answer to other
> nominated nameservers. It will also cache - all nameservers cache. Here
> you would put:
> 
> forwarders { 158.152.1.58; 158.152.1.43; };

ahh .. now thats wod I want ..


> Internet etiquette suggests that you should obtain permission before
> forwarding to someone else's nameserver; as a Demon customer I should
> not think they would make any difficulty.

presumably i already am forwarding requests out of netscape, etc. etc.
so I guess that permision is implicit when you sign up to demon, but
i'll ask over on demon service to be sure.
 
> >
> > I've played around with my /etc/named.conf but its a) making my head
> > hurt and b) not working.  I;d really appreciate any good tips/short
> > howtos / copies of your named.bott and named.conf and a sample master
> > file I can understand cos its beginning to bug me :)
> 
> Named.boot is for bind4. Named.conf for bind8. I am assuming that as you
> are runnning a recent looking Mandrake you have bind8.

yup bind 8 .. so ignore ill ignore named.boot its obviously a hangover
[sic] from a previous install.

> You have to build the zone files too of course. This will get too long
> if I post samples of these. You should obtain a copy of "DNS and Bind"
> by Cricket & Liu, O'Reilly 1-56592-512-2, from any good computer
> bookshop. The authors provide a Perl script called "h2n", which is in a
> package of utilities which can be obtained from
> 
> ftp://ftp.ora.com/published/orielly/nutshell/dnsbind/dns.tar.Z
> 
> H2n will take /etc/hosts and build the bind files.
> 
> But I *really* recommend the book.

I'll look on the network bookshelf CD .. failing that I'll order it.

cheers .. most helpful.

i'll be back asking more questions when i got some part of it working
...

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robin

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