Re: [opensuse] RE: DNS caching only server setup issues request for help and patience

Thanks, yes its overkill - BUT is very helpful, every
time I read docs on bind I still learn something new -
Well as for complaining to my ISP well - that's a bit
like fighting city hall.....I have inserted 2 master
zones with preference direct the master DNS server to
be a root server in Japan, they wont be authoritative
that's o.k as I will leave my ISP in as authoritative.
Watching the system log presents no issues here. My ISP
is first preference and if it answers before time-out
it is doing that, if it cannot BIND goes straight to
the DNS root server in Japan. There seems no apparent
distress from the root server in Japan over 6 days of
watching the system log.

Cheers and thanks for the URL

Scott

G T Smith wrote:
Registration Account wrote:

<snip>

I have not really achieved anything as I am asking my
own ISP to resolve DNS enquiries which it already does?

Without freaking me out with editing config files all
over the place, can someone walk me through creating a
DNS server resolve DNS enquires I MAKE with whoever it
wants to?

<snip>

I think I am mildly confused about what you mean by setting up your ISP
server as a master. (A suitably edited snippet of your config may be
helpful here).

If you have set up an empty slave zones it is unlikely to get a zone
transfers from the masters as you will not be sent the relevant zone
transfer messages informing your server of zone updates. Your DNS is
then probably just acting as cache/recursive server with a slightly odd
setup. If your ISP has DNS issues you are in trouble anyway, and the
only effective thing you can do is complain or change ISP.

This may be overkill but I think the following document may help if you
have not read it already... I would point you towards Chapter 1 and
Chapter 3 most of the rest is irrelevant to your current position except
Chapter 6 which lists the config options and implicitly gives a good
idea of what is going on...

http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/




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