Standalone primary DNS server (without root servers)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9uqv4d$an1 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Morris Seals  <seals at dnsboss.com> wrote:
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>Why couldn't you just make your db.cache look like this:
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>.                        3600000  IN  NS    A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     10.10.100.100
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>where 10.10.100.100 is the ip of your DNS primary.

Because when named starts up it will send 10.10.100.100 a query for the
root NS records, and if 10.10.100.100 isn't authoritative for the root zone
named will complain.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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