From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 00:59:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA27379 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:59:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27369 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:59:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990120085922.LTXH682101.mta1-rme@wocker> for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:59:22 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:59:42 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: named questions Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz In-reply-to: <199901200356.TAA24029@hub.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990120085922.LTXH682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [email already sent to Stan, but I missed the list] On 19 Jan 99, at 22:56, Stan Brown wrote: > i want to run named in secondary mode, and add a machine or 2 to the > DNS at work. Obviously this will only work for machines that use this > amchine as the nameserver. That's prettty much what I want. > > Question, will this work? Ummm, if your machine is disignated as the secondary name server for the domains in question, your machine will be referred to by any machine that, for whatever reason, can't reach the primary name server. A given domain has at least two name servers, normally referred to as the primary and secondary. A domain can have more than one secondary server. > 2nd question, is there a script to crate the database for named, given > an /etc/hosts file as input? No script that I know of. I do mine by hand. See my website for details. Look at the topics page, then DNS. Hope it helps. Cheers. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message