Establishing an internal root server

[Michael Voight]

Barry Margolin wrote:
> 
> In article <37B459C9.AB7F14A0 at earthlink.net>,
> Steve Hammill  <shammill at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >Thanks to everyone who helped me get my DNS server working last
> >weekend.  Now I'm hoping to get it totally right.
> >
> >We do not have an Internet connection.  Can I establish our primary as a
> >pseudo-root by giving the A server in db.cache my DNS address and
> >deleting the rest?
> >
> >Or is there a "proper" way to do it.  I couldn't find it in DNS/Bind,
> >but I might not have been using the correct terminology.
> 
> Just make yourself primary for the domain named ".".
> 

Well, he does have to create a root zone file.. You know SOA, NS, A and
all of that. :)

Michael