On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Austad, Jay wrote:

> You don't have to do anything with inetd.  Inetd is only for setting up
> network access to programs that don't normally run as a daemon.

Thanks -- I just found that in a book before I checked my e-mail.  Doh!

> You have your IN NS lines setup correctly and the SOA at the top of the
> config file?  

I believe so -- will double check.

> Does nslookup say "non-authoritative"?  If not, it's considered
> authoritative.

nslookup says Non-authoritative.  Even for the 127 lookup.  I saw
something about this in some bind doc files, but am still grepping for it.

> Keep in mind that you cannot give your DNS server a private address and NAT
> it to a public one.  I've heard that you might be able to with Bind 9, but I
> haven't tried it.  This doesn't sound like your problem, but keep that in
> mind.

That's clever, but I don't think I need to be that clever.

Here's a question that is either related to both topics or not:

Can you make your NS authoritative locally and also do a caching DNS, or
should you really do two separate NS?  (To do local DNS, and then speed up
lookups to the outside world.)

The reason I wonder if this is related is that when going through the DNS
HOWTO, I didn't spend much time with the caching server, and don't know if
I got it working right but just jumped to the local one (and deleted the
db.root reference)

I think I'm close.  Files available on request.

Thanks,
Phil

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