Configuration questions

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37D59255.1F77378D at wuest.org>,
Robert Wuest  <rwuest at wuest.org> wrote:
>1. Is it ok for this server to listen on the internet?  I disabled that
>by explicitly naming my eth and lo device address and not the ppp in a
>listen-on option statement? Is this why I'm getting lot's of lame server
>messages in my logs?

It sounds like there's no need for this server to listen on its PPP
interface, so your configuration seems reasonable.  "Lame server" messages
mean there's a problem with a remote server, not your server.

>2. Looking through this newsgroup, I see some config files with "notify
>yes" in their 192.168.x.x domains.  I chose no; I don't think I should
>be telling any other server about that domain.  Which is correct?

Notify is only used between a master and its slaves.  If you only have one
server for your internal domain, notify doesn't matter.

>3. This has me real confused: dig garath gives me this:
>
>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>.                       1D IN SOA       A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>hostmaster.internic.NET. (
>                                        1999090700      ; serial
>                                        30M             ; refresh
>                                        15M             ; retry
>                                        1W              ; expiry
>                                        1D )            ; minimum
>
>
>Shouldn't garath be the authority?  Why is a root server involved in
>this at all?  Is that bad? I thought that I made garath the authority by
>putting:
>
>@               IN SOA  garath.home. rwuest.wuest.org. (
>
>In the zone config files.  (it's the same in the fwd and reverse files).

What domain is this in?  If this is the home domain, you should do "dig
home soa" to see it.  When you do "dig garath", it's looking for a
top-level domain named "garath".  It doesn't find it, so it provides a
referral to the root servers.

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