You do not have to tell the authority of your DOMAIN about you secondary
name server, unless you plan to allow others to query it. For example
many organizations let the ISP host their primary name server of which
their secondary name server feeds. The secondary name server will be
used by their internal users only, this way DNS queries by internal
users will be minimal over the Internet link, and should the ISP's DNS
go down, users will still be able to use the secondary DNS.
Dan Cyr wrote:
> Read the DNS-HOWTO it has all the info you need to know in it, except
> for
> the fact that if you are setting up a DNS Server that will be on the
> internet, and that it will be either a 'primary' or 'secondary'
> server,
> that you MUST tell the authority for your DOMAIN where it is and what
> it's
> named is. I was rather disappointed to find that it wasn't in there.
> Actually without having the book in front of my face, I believe
> O'Reilly's
> DNS & Bind book didn't mention it either.
>
> If it is in either of those documents, I sure as hell didn't see it,
> and
> spent abit of time tracking that info down.
>
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO
>
> Be 'very' careful with where your putting periods '.'
>
> Dan
>
> At 11:36 PM 4/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hello,
> > I was also wondering how to set up DNS under redhat. I know
> that
> >you need bind and named to set up dns but I have never done this
> before.
> >Since I set up Linux on my machine to learn how to do things in a
> UNIX
> >like enviorment, I was wondering if anyone knew: 1. What packages are
>
> >necessary to be installed for setting up DNS?
> >2. How to set up DNS under Linux? Specifically what files need to be
>
> >edited, and what should their structure be?
> > Thanks,
> > Dan Hughes
>
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