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Seather
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Location: South Africa
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 Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:27 pm Post subject: How to create an authoritative domain name server? |
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Heya,
I have a virtual server with a static ip hosted, and I wish to run an authoritative DNS server on it for certain domain names, I've tried searching but couldn't really find anything?
Anyone that can help me on this? |
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denniruz
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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An authoratative name server is one that doesn't do any recursive queries.. Here's an example options section--
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options {
directory "/var/named";
recursion no;
};
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Ijon Tichy
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:08 am Post subject: |
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An "Authoritative Only" name server doesn't do any recursion, but a name server can do recursion and still be authoritative for the zones that it serves.
It has to do with the SOA records in your zones, the name servers you registered with your domain registrars, and the NS records you put in your zone files.
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denniruz
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject: Jumping to comclusions-- |
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That's absolutely right-- I just assumed that you wanted an authoratative-only server. The authoratitive servers are the ones that show when you do a whois search. Most registrars have tools that allow you to change those fairly easily...
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