root.hint & localhost.ddb

[Kevin Darcy]

On a network with no Internet access, you need to set up your own root zone. The
master for this internal root zone, and all of the slaves, need no hints files.
All of the other nameservers would use a hints file which would list your master
and your slaves for the internal root zone.


- Kevin

mmarquez at mmer.inegi.gob.mx wrote:

> On 16 May 01, at 8:04, Christopher L. Barnard wrote:
>
> > >
> > > where can i watch some root.hint & reverse mapping of the
> > > loopback address files so I can understand better their sintaxis?
> >
> > I'm afraid your english may be confusing.  I know a little spanish, but not
> > enough to use it in an email.
> >
> > Do you mean where can you get a root.hint file?
>
> Yes, and localhost.rev (0.0.127.in-addr.arpa).
> look, im very new on DNS. I got bind9.1.2 for install on redhat7.1
> and reading docs and howtos, i realized i was reading information
> for setting up a nameserver with bind4!! so all i did was wrong!!
>
> Now i know about the file named.conf instead named.boot and
> about the changes in its format. Now i need to know if the format of
> the zone files has been changed. I read somewhere, for example,
> that its necesary include TTL field in zone files.
>
> my project its simple. I need to setup a name server for a local
> area network without Internet access, for manage and normalize
> hostnames. Users dont want use ip address, just hostnames.
>
> i just need map some ip address to their hostnames. that its all. no
> need of advanced skills. Maybe i will need to setup this name
> server as secondary (slave) for another zone but its another story.
>
> by the hand, with this set, i need include the root.hint in my
> nameserver?
>
> >
> > > if my DNS is slave for domain.com, then the file
> > > /var/named/domain.com.slave gets populate by zone transfer??
> > > I mean, no need of manual edit on this file?
> >
> > That is correct.  The master will update the zone files.  You should not edit
> > them by hand.
> >
>
> ohhh!! ok, thanks all for your answers. If something dont work, i
> hope i can show you my files (as they are).
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> Miguel R. Marquez Bautista
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