Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:36:03 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: "Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: named questions Message-ID: <19990120193544.NZSH682101.mta1-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <19990120121510.NWVV678125.mta2-rme@grizzly.fas.com> References: <19990120041216.LRAS678125.mta2-rme@wocker> from "Dan Langille" at Jan 20, 99 05:11:27 pm
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cc'd to questions; my fault. I didn't have it in my my reply to you. On 20 Jan 99, at 7:14, Stan Brown wrote: > > > >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. > > Bit, _only_ if the other machine lists mine in /etc/resolv.conf, > corrrect? Therefore If no other machnes, than the one(s) I want to use > this list it. My machine will be transparent to tham, won;t it> No, I don't think that is correct. That's not the way DNS works. But perhaps I've misunderstood you. Is this a public domain accessible to all? Or are you doing a private name server used only by your machines? -- 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
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