On 11 April 2011 14:04, Martin McCormick <mar...@x.it.okstate.edu> wrote:
> Stacey Marshall writes: > > I'm not certain as to what it is your trying to do exactly, but the hint > > zone should provide addresses of root servers. One of which will be > > contacted to download the list of root nameservers. > > This is a special-purpose DNS used for network > registration in which unauthenticated clients can only get > either a registration server or a few lookups to places like > Apple and Microsoft to download patches before we let them on > the production network. It is not meant to be the least bit > normal as far as the usual application of DNS goes. > > the hint zone basically serves itself as root. > Fair enough, the root server listed in the fake list would also need to load the zone, for example: zone "." in { type hint; file "root.hint"; }; zone "." in { type master; file "root.zone"; } The hint file has a format that simply lists the Address and PTR records, as observed from a simple "dig | grep -v '^;'", for example: . 518400 IN NS our.fake.root. our.fake.root. 3600000 IN A 192.168.0.1 The actual master zone must have the SOA, NS records, glue and the wildcard. Hope that helps. Stace
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