Moonshi: I've read thru most if it.. Well.. The effort is good, but dun't
you think you are re-inventing the wheel ? You miss out quite a few
points, like what's the diference between subdomain.com. and subdomain.com
(With and w/o trailing .) and also things like 203.127.5.115 =
115.5.127.203.arpa stuff.
Few more pointers...
Explain what the MX records.. that it's an SMTP server. And since you
have smtp and mail around, what happened to pop ? Coz notice ur smtp
points to mail and so does smtp ? The thing is to setup a "neat" dns
record. These are things you should point to ppl reading howtos (Assume
this is the first time they are doing dns) We do not want things to get
messy.
IN MX 10 mail.domain_name.com.
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
router IN A 10.1.2.1
dns_server_hostname IN A 10.1.2.2
mailserver_hostname IN A 10.1.2.3
www_server_hostname IN A 10.1.2.4
domain_name.com. IN A 10.1.2.2
www IN CNAME www_server_hostname ;(as pointed above IN A
10.1.2.4)
ftp IN CNAME ftp_server_hostname
pop IN CNAME mail_server_hostname
smtp IN CNAME mail_server_hostname
mail IN CNAME mail_server_hostname
And for the first few lines of the zone files (The timeout/retry
entries..) You can acutally put 8D, or 4H, etc.. no need put the seconds,
easier to calculate and check :)
|Nest, be sure to explicitly informed your ISP (Internet Service provider)
|that you are
|PRIMARY-ing your DNS and get your ISP to
|SECONDARY your DNS zones. This is to make it easy for your network
|administrators to update
|the DNS zone entries, adding more
|services, hosts and etc and getting it to be SECONDARY by your ISP as and
|when your PRIMARY
|DNS is updated.
It's Next rite ? hehe..
I think we're forcing HOW to do a DNS setup rite ? Coz some people uses
their own secondary server. And of coz u forget to mention that some ISPs
charge for secondary DNS hosting. And actually, the person that is more
inportant to contact bout the secondary is Internic themselves ! :)
which brings to the other points, tell ppl where to register their domain
names (.com/.net/.org/.(ISO countr codes) And there is more then one
"internics" nowadays....
It's a good effort, go post it somewhere... But if i were to point, I
would think the full DNS-HOWTO is better. The current version of BIND's
documentation (in the zone files) is good enuf. And redhat 6.0 makes DNS
so much easier too.
The problem ppl have when it comes to DNS is not really the setting up,
it's more of the understanding of how DNS works. That's why simple
footnotes and tips is important to make ur DNS-MINI-HOWTO more "enriching"
experience.
You forgot one thing, a very important thing.. setting it up as a caching
server :) Coz if you have your own DNS server, you have your own network,
etc.. u get the picture.
Elvin
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On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Moonshi Mohsenruddin -- User wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have just written a Mini-DNS-HOWTO which is applicable as a
> streamliner for HardwareZone.com site.
>
> Elvin >> I need your help to go thru the "named.conf", "named.hosts",
> "named.local" and "named.rev" file before I post it to the public and on
> SLP's website.
>
> Once you have done that, add your name to it too :)
>
> Cheers!
> Moonshi Mohsenruddin aka MoonX [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Asia/Singapore icq:2595480 http://www.linux.com.sg
