From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 6 00:27:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01393 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:27:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA01387 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:27:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id IAA00686; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 08:27:48 GMT Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:27:48 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: dkelly@HiWAAY.net cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unofficial secondary nameserver? In-Reply-To: <199704050125.TAA12225@nexgen.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 4 Apr 1997 dkelly@HiWAAY.net wrote: > Reading the DNS & Bind nutshell book failed to provide an example of what > I'm wanting to do. Their examples presumed one had permission to establish > a secondary server. And hints updates may flow both directions. If my DNS > database got sucked back into the primary there would be a lot of > screaming. I don't know enough about it (yet) to know if my concerns are > valid or not. Don't particularly care for the company DNS to log errors of > any attempts either. You never really say what you have in mind but here's something to think on. The only diference between a primary and secondary name server is where they get their data. Primaries read it from files they trust, secondaries read it from primaries. The order of listing in the InterNIC records means nothing. If you are a registered namesrever you are authoritative for that domain. Clients do not know about primary or secondary. Conversely, if you aren't listed in the Nic's database, you don't exist. No one else will see you. If you set up your own rouge name server within the company it will not "leak" cause no one will ever look at it. This is all in the book, I don't think you read it very well. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82