[plug] DNS problem

[Simon Scott]

	Since we are on the topic of DNS, I also have a question

	I have a LAN connected to the internet. I recently got an account on
DHS.ORG, to point to my server.

	I have a caching only DNS server on the box, which works (I just
fudged it, I havent read up on DNS yet)

	For interests sake, I want to play around with dynamic DNS (I have
DHCPD running on the server also). Basically I want to be able to resolve
the addresses of my local boxen via the dns server instead of /etc/hosts or
c:\windows\hosts etc..... 

	Ive named my boxes things like 'server' and 'bigkahoona'..... so
whats the zone? Would I have to create a fake domain, so my boxen would be
something like 'server.mydomain' and setup the zone file? I think that a
'blank' zone is the root zone, so I cant really do that. 

	Has anyone else setup a dns server in this manner? Is it possible?
Or do I really need to go the whole hog and register a domain?




	From:	Paul Dean <paul at canningcollege.wa.edu.au> on 24-05-2001
09:42 AM
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	Subject:	Re: [plug] DNS problem

	Steve,

	Have you set your named.conf file "forwarders" to the "master" DNS
and 
	yours as "slave"?

	See `man 8 named`


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