root domain questions on closed net

Rick Reineman rick at perle.llnl.gov
Thu Feb 17 18:42:58 UTC 2000


I'm installing DNS on a closed network.  My only previous experience with DNS
is as a client.

I'm running this on Solaris7, BIND release 4.9.4 (comes with the OS).  For
this network I expect to have several hundred clients across a dozen or so
subnets, a single domain.

My initial confusion is about the root master.

Can the root master reside on the same machine as the zone primary master?

Is the root master really a server or even a process?  It almost looks like
the root master is simply a config entry in the named.ca file.

In Suns documentation there seems to be conflicting samples.  In one case the
named.ca is a couple of lines, in another case it is similar to part of the
named.conf sample.  If someone could email their named.ca for a closed network
I would appreciate that.

I have an O'Reilly DNS book from 1993, seems old but they talk about BIND
4.8.3.  I assume the book is suitable for my install.

Any suggestions or opinions will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Rick
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Rick Reineman					UNIX Systems Management
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory		reineman1 at llnl.gov





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