From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 6 11:22:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA26226 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 May 1997 11:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA26219 for ; Tue, 6 May 1997 11:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA14183 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 May 1997 20:22:11 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA13999; Tue, 6 May 1997 20:12:21 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970506201221.SY61854@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 20:12:21 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bind before hosts and iijppp... References: <19970506080836.PW58861@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705060733.IAA13393@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> 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: <199705060733.IAA13393@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>; from Brian Somers on May 6, 1997 08:33:11 +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Somers wrote: > > Too many people might playingly enable this entry then, it's not a > > good idea. Maybe a secondary for `domain.com'. :-) > > Agreed. I also think a "cheat entry" should be made available, but > I wouldn't mind some comments on this. What about this: ; Example secondary config entries. It can be convenient to become ; a secondary at least for the zone where your own domain is in. Ask ; your network administrator for the IP address of the responsible ; primary. ; ; Never forget to include the reverse lookup (IN-ADDR.ARPA) zone! ; (This is the first bytes of the respective IP address, in reverse ; order, with ".IN-ADDR.ARPA" appended.) ; ; Before starting to setup a primary zone, better make sure you fully ; understand how DNS and BIND works, however. There are sometimes ; unobvious pitfalls. Setting up a secondary is comparably simpler. ; ; NB: Don't blindly comment out the examples below. :-) Use actual ; names and addresses instead. ; ;type zone name IP of primary backup file name ;================================================================== ;secondary domain.com 127.0.0.1 domain.com.bak ;secondary 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa 127.0.0.1 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.bak ; ; ; If you've got a DNS server around at your upstream provider, enter ; its IP address here. This will make you benefit from its cache, ; thus reduce overall DNS traffic in the Internet. ; ;forwarders 127.0.0.1 -- 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. ;-)