upgrade newbie questions

Brian Salomaki brian at gambitdesign.com
Mon Oct 29 20:49:01 UTC 2001


Well, if the server is internal and cannot be queried by outside computers, 
you could safely create zones like "isaac" for your internal network.  
Another solution, one that is done more often, is to set up a default search 
domain on the clients (this is a client-side modification, not server-side).  
For instance, you could set this to 'hammerdog.org', and the client resolver 
looking up 'isaac' would auto-append 'hammerdog.org' after failing to find a 
match for 'isaac' by itself.  All said, it's usually better and less 
confusing in the end to always use fully qualified domain names.

On Monday 29 October 2001 12:36 am, fybar wrote:
> I have bind 8.2.2, (I know! I am going to upgrade later this week!)

:) Please do

> but this question should be version independent.  I have my server
> running as the master for my internal 192.168.x.x network and as a
> slave for internet connections through my firewall.  Internally I can
> resolve fully qualified domain names like 'isaac.hammerdog.org' for my
> home network, but I want to be able to resolve 'isaac' without using a
> hosts file.  Is this possible?  My named.conf:
>
> options {
>         directory  "/etc/namedb/";
> };
>
> zone  "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type  master;
>         file  "named.local";
> };
>
> zone  "hammerdog.org" {
>         type  master;
>         file  "hosts.db";
>         allow-update { any; };
> };
>
> zone  "255.255.255.255" {
>         type  slave;
>         file  "named.local";
>         masters  { xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
>         };
> };
>
> zone  "." {
>         type  hint;
>         file  "named.ca";
> };
>
> Thanks!

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Brian Salomaki
Gambit Design Internet Services
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