From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 10 08:07:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA06491 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 08:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from limbo.senate.org (nathan@senate.org [204.141.125.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA06486 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 08:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nathan@localhost) by limbo.senate.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA08229; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:07:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Dorfman Message-Id: <199707101507.LAA08229@limbo.senate.org> Subject: Re: Nameserver QUestion In-Reply-To: from Dev Chanchani at "Jul 10, 97 10:28:02 am" To: dev@wopr.inetu.net (Dev Chanchani) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:07:52 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You want your primary nameserver to be a secondary for one domain? Sure. Edit your /etc/named.boot file or whatever you use for named startup and add a line like: secondary newdomain.com [primary's IP] [filename] secondary xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa [primary's IP] [filename] Unless you modify the "primary" directives, this will not impede your name- server's current operation in any way. I suggest you pick up DNS & BIND, by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, O'Reilly Publishing. > We have a client that registered a domain name with us. He wants to be > primary for it and run his own DNS. Internic is taking way to long to > process the host request and the modify. > > My question is, can we setup our nameserver (primary) here to pull > secondary from his nameserver for that domain? > > I don't see what the problem would be, but I just wanted to make sure it > wouldn't cause any little problems. > > Thanks in advance, > Dev >