From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 24 12:51:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ciocc.graphics.cornell.edu (CIOCC.GRAPHICS.CORNELL.EDU [128.84.247.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C806E14BDD for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 12:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@graphics.cornell.edu) Received: by ciocc.graphics.cornell.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA27013; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 15:49:29 -0400 Message-Id: <9907241949.AA27013@ciocc.graphics.cornell.edu> To: Dan Busarow Cc: "Michael P. Neuman" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS SubDomains In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 99 17:41:57 PDT." Date: Sat, 24 Jul 99 15:49:28 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Michael P. Neuman wrote: >> I am running 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD. I have DNS working properly for our L >AN so far. I haven't recieved a clear response on how to set up a Sub-Domain >with it. For example: I have the domain foobar.com. Within it are 100 compu >ters. I also have an > >other "segment" with 140 computers. I would like to assign that part to the d >omain sub.foobar.com. I know how to do it by having the DNS records all on th >e foobar.com server. I need to have records for foobar.com on one machine and > sub.foobar.com on th > >e other. Exactly how would I do this?? Is there a site the describes how?? >Thank you in advance! > >You should fix your mail client's (non) line breaking behaviour. > >I could have sworn I saw the answer go by a few days ago > >sub IN NS ns.sub.foobar.com. > >Then setup ns.sub.foobar.com with named that is primary/master for >sub.foobar.com > >There's no magic about the number of dots in a zone. Someone elses >suggestion to get the Cricket book is a good idea too :) While technically accurate, the above is poor engineering practice and the cause of numerous internet "outages". You need to have multiple DNS servers for each zone, ideally topologically separate so your zone doesn't fail to resolve when the single server is down or unreachable. Get the O'Reilly "DNS and BIND" book. And read it. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message