Hidden Master

[Chimento, Douglas]

> BTW, as far as I know, *nothing* uses WKS records any more.
i know but i think they are pretty cool. 

>You should put the hidden master's name in the SOA record.  

so, i should put realmaster.hideme.com in the SOA with a 192.168.0.1 A
record in the zone?
( i.e. realmaster IN 	A 	192.168.0.1 )

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Margolin [mailto:barmar at genuity.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 5:02 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: Hidden Master


In article <9s9m1m$qst at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Chimento, Douglas <Douglas.Chimento at FMR.COM> wrote:
>I assume that the below implementation is ok , meaning that are no critical
>issues.
>unparticular I am concerned with the  SOA record 
>Thanks 

You should put the hidden master's name in the SOA record.  But unless
you're using dynamic updates it doesn't really matter, because nothing
else uses that field.

BTW, as far as I know, *nothing* uses WKS records any more.

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