From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 25 15:05:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA18283 for current-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:05:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA18258 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:05:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA16609; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:05:07 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA07112; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 23:25:08 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970325232508.WZ22010@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 23:25:08 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: zellion@cyberwind.com (Jeffery T. White), jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: named References: <199703250315.TAA00502@cyberwind.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703250315.TAA00502@cyberwind.com>; from Jeffery T. White on Mar 24, 1997 19:23:35 -0800 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jeffery T. White wrote: > > Hmm. What else than running make-localhost did you need in order to > > start a caching-only named? The default named.boot file does exactly > > this, and nothing more. > Ahh, yes you are right the sample files do just that, they just don't tell > you in the comments. That's right. > The man page leads one to believe that they need to setup a secondary > or primary server. > "Yikes this is serious" :-) Yep, setting up a primary _is_ serious (except the primary for 127.in-addr.arpa, of course :). You shouldn't do it unless you know what the various bits mean, at least not if you intend to connect it to the Internet. > The install idea would > be really cool. I'll see whether i can come up with a suggestion to Jordan. > One thing I added was a cron entry to fetch a new named.root from NIC every > so often, if you were going to do a sysinstall that might also be something > to think about. If not it still might be a useful commented out line... Hmmm. I'm not sure whether i like this as a general rule. For one, we don't setup any crontab entries except for /etc/*ly (and newsyslog(8) and atrun(8)) by default at all. Also, sites might be dialup-sites, or simply might not wish this service at all. The root-server files usually change very little only, so i don't think this justifies the hassles. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)