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rir at phavl.ma.ultranet.com rir at phavl.ma.ultranet.com
Tue Feb 16 23:37:38 EST 1999


On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 linuxguy at ici.net wrote:

> On 12-Feb-99 rir at phavl.ma.ultranet.com wrote:

> > I have a small private network of 15 machines, served by one
> > nameserver which is authoritative for the domain.


> This is EXACTLY what I am doing at home with what I think is good
> success.  My case.... I have a home network with 3 machines, 1
> 33k modem (for personal use) and a ISDN router for business.

> My quest was to setup DNS to resolve my local domain, defer business.com
> over the ISDN to work DNS, and defer *.com/net/edu/... to my ISP DNS (well,
> I actually defer everything else to nasa but the concept holds true).

> The solution was to setup my DNS server as a root server.  Unfortunately I'm
> on my way work now, so I'll have to post the configs later tonight or tomorrow.
> I believe the newer bind supprts a feature called 'forward'.  I am not
> certain as to it's proper use, but I know my setup is working, and therefore
> I'm root.  Please email me a reminder if you're interested in the detailed
> setup.

I'm not sure.  

I didn't even consider setting up as root, it would seem to
soak up all the unqualified names.  If that is the case then yes.

--
rob
rir at phavl.ultranet.com

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