Antw: Re: Secondary DNS

[Barry Margolin]

   Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:17:20 +0100
   From: "=?ISO-8859-1?B?Suly9G1lIE1leWVy?=" <jerome.meyer at pax.ch>

   I'm working to check where is the problem on my configuration of the secondary DNS!!!
   I'm still some questions about DNS or BIND.
   Please tell me if my understanding for a secondary DNS are correct.

   When named is started, the process check the file /etc/resolv.conf. Then

Named doesn't look at /etc/resolv.conf at all.  Client applications use
that to find a nameserver to send queries to.

   the file named.boot is running and he compare two files with the primary
   DNS, the named.hosts and named.rev. If the files are old he download
   them from the primary and put it on /etc directory. And after that all

He checks any files that are listed in named.boot for zones listed as
"secondary".  And he puts them in whatever directory is specified in the
named.boot "directory" line.

   does running??? My question is: Do I use for my secondary DNS a cache
   file (named.ca) and a local file (named.local)?? Do my named.ca are the
   same like the named.ca on the primary DNS?

named.ca has nothing to do with being primary or secondary.  It's used when
looking up something in a domain that you're not primary or secondary for,
to find the root servers that tell you where that domain's servers are.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA