Confused on how to setup BIND correctly

Jason jwilliams at courtesymortgage.com
Sat May 1 21:16:28 UTC 2004


Barry Margolin wrote:

Hi Barry,

> 
> To do this, you would have to make separate zones for each internal 
> hostname:
> 
> zone "webserver1.mydomain.com" {
>   type master;
>   file "webserver.db";
> };
> zone "someothername.mydomain.com" {
>   type master;
>   file "someothername.db";
> };
> and do on.

Doesn't sound to incredibly difficult. More tedious than anything else.
But each particular web server, mail server, or whatever, would require 
it's own zone entry...Ok..i'll have to take a look at it.

> The usual solutions are either to use a different domain, as you 
> currently do, or replicate the public entries on your internal DNS 
> rather than pulling them from the ISP's DNS server.
> 

Hmm. I see. All would be much much easier once I host everything myself. 
I live for the day. :)

Jason


More information about the bind-users mailing list