From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 11:36:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08183 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:36:15 -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 LAA08178 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:36:11 -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 <19990120193544.NZSH682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:35:44 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "Stan Brown" Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:36:03 +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 CC: References: <19990120041216.LRAS678125.mta2-rme@wocker> from "Dan Langille" at Jan 20, 99 05:11:27 pm In-reply-to: <19990120121510.NWVV678125.mta2-rme@grizzly.fas.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990120193544.NZSH682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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