Andrew Falanga wrote: >> >> >> You're on the right track. Yes, you'ld need a zone file for the root of >> your DNS -- if it's all served from one machine then that would replace >> the >> 'hint' zone and named.root stuff in the example named.conf >> >> The zone file for '.' would contain an SOA record and then delegation for >> whatever forward and reverse domains you want to use. Eg. supposing you >> want to use the TLD 'in.isolation' with IP numbers from 192.168.0.0/24 >> then you'ld need something like: >> >> ; >> ; Root of the private domain name system >> ; >> $TTL 604800 ; 1 week >> >> @ IN SOA ns0.in.isolation. >> hostmaster.in.isolation. ( >> 2006120100 ; Serial >> 1800 ; Refresh (30min) >> 900 ; Retry (15min) >> 604800 ; Expire (1week) >> 86400 ) ; Minimum (1day) >> in.isolation. IN NS ns0.in.isolation. >> 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns0.in.isolation. >> ns0.in.isolation. IN A 192.168.0.1 ; Glue >> ; >> ; That's All Folks! >> ; >> > > Ok, here's the problems I've got so far. I've made the following files, > > isolated.zone, isolated.rev, localhost.rev, localhost-v6.rev and root.zone > > The isolated.* files are for the forward addresses and the reverse pointers > for 192.168.0.0/24 that I've set up. The root.zone file contains, what I > thought should be, for the "." zone. (Matthew, from your message above, I > wasn't clear if all I'd need is what you have above, or that it was implied > that I'd need a SOA for the "." zone as well. So, I made one.)
The above *is* for the root zone.
> Now, I'm getting a few errors. Sometimes it seems that named can't find
> the
> files that I told it to look for in named.conf. I used the original
> named.conf file as a reference, and just filled in the "blanks" as it were,
> for my zones.
>
> Also, named keeps complaining about rndc.key files missing. How do I
> generate these key files? I didn't find anything from 'man rndc'?
Use rndc-confgen and follow the instructions written in the file
it outputs about editing named.conf. You won't need a separate
rndc.key file.
Matthew
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