stubs question

[Kevin Darcy]

otrcomm***NO-SPAM***@wildapache**NO-SPAM***.net wrote:

> I have a few C-blocks and just received another one (63.142.14.0/24)
> from Winstar Broadband.

(Actually, 63.*.*.* is in the A-class range, not the C-class range. But
I know what you meant.)

> What we are wanting to do is have Winstar delegate this block to one of
> my name servers (209.141.80.2) by stubbing it out in their nameserver
> and then I will delegate it out to one of my sub-ISPs by stubbing it out
> in the 209.141.80.2 nameserver.
>
> Winstar has put an entry in their named.conf file like so:
>
> zone "14.142.63.in-addr.arpa"{
>         type stub;
>         file "63.142.14";
>         masters {209.141.80.2 ; };
> };
>
> and then I put an entry in the named.conf file for 209.141.80.2 like so:
>
> zone "14.142.63.in-addr.arpa"{
>         type stub;
>         file "63.142.14";
>         masters {63.142.14.2 ; };
> };
>
> Now I have the nameserver at 63.142.14.2 setup to be the master for the
> 63.142.14.0/24 block.
>
> When I restarted the nameserver on 209.141.80.2, I did not have any
> errors in my syslog and I got a new file in my nameserver root directory
> called 63.142.14.  This file contains:
>
> ; BIND version named 8.2.2-P5 Mon Jan  3 19:57:20 MST 2000
> ; BIND version
> root at pri.wildapache.net:/usr/local/src/bind-8.2.2-p5/src/bin/named
> ; zone '14.142.63.in-addr.arpa'   first transfer
> ; from 63.142.14.2:53 (local 209.141.80.2) using AXFR at Fri Oct 20
> 03:06:25 2000
> $ORIGIN 142.63.in-addr.arpa.
> 14      86400   IN      SOA     ns1.verdenet.com. admin.verdenet.com. (
>                 2441675798 10800 3600 604800 86400 )
>         86400   IN      NS      ns1.wildapache.net.
>         86400   IN      NS      ns1.verdenet.com.
> ; Ignoring info about ns1.verdenet.com, not in zone
> 14.142.63.in-addr.arpa.
> ; $ORIGIN verdenet.com.
> ; ns1   86400   IN      A       63.142.14.2
>
> When I start the nameserver at 63.142.14.2, the syslog does not show any
> errors and I can do nslookup on all my devices/domains in that system.
>
> However, I get an entry in my syslog on the 209.141.80.2 system like so:
>
> Oct 20 14:05:49 pri named[27386]: rcvd NOTIFY(14.142.63.in-addr.arpa,
> IN, SOA) from [63.142.14.2].1125
> Oct 20 14:05:49 pri named[27386]: NOTIFY(SOA) for non-secondary name
> (14.142.63.in-addr.arpa), from [63.142.14.2].1125
> Oct 20 14:05:52 pri named[27386]: rcvd NOTIFY(verdenet.com, IN, SOA)
> from [63.142.14.2].1125
> Oct 20 14:05:52 pri named[27386]: rcvd NOTIFY for "verdenet.com", name
> not one of our zones
>
> (sorry if it wrapped here)
>
> Now, I was told by someone (Mr. DNS) that:
>
> "...ns1.wildapache.net should be a slave for
> 14.142.63.in-addr.arpa, using the name server at 63.142.14.2 as its
> master...", but I do not know how to do this.

Replace "type stub" with "type slave", remove the stub file and reload the
nameserver.


- Kevin