Remote DNS server

[Kevin Darcy]

gmanon wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if I can serve a site on a local-network using a
> registered name served on a remote server without configuring Bind at my
> local server?

I'm not quite sure what you are asking. What do you mean by "served"? If by
"served" you mean "be authoritative", then no, you cannot become
authoritative for a zone without reconfiguring BIND and setting up some
form of replication from the zone's master server (either regular
AXFR/IXFR replication achieved by defining the zone as "type slave", or
some alternative form of replication, where you define the zone as "type
master" and arrange to reload the zone contents into the nameserver's
memory each time it changes).

Or, by "served" do you simply mean that your clients need to be able to
resolve names in some arbitrary domain? As long as there is a proper
delegation chain all of the way down from the root zone (is that what you
meant by "registered name" perhaps?) to the zone in question, and as long
as the nameserver that your clients are using has a correct "hints" file
and has recursion turned on, then it should be able to resolve names in
that zone without any special configuration.


- Kevin