Re: [SLUG] ot: BIND setup, need it resolve to itself 1st ?

[Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:58:14PM +0000, Voytek Eymont (voytek@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> any BIND experts ?
> 
> If I am setting up primary DNS server, it is supposed to resolve to itself
> first, like:
> 
> 127.0.0.1
> <it's hostid>
> <slave DNS host>

<offtopic>
What about OS/2? Still using it? you should have my email in your newsletter file ... ;-)
</offtopic>


You have another option, in host.conf you specify:

order hosts,bind

which basically says that on *local* lookups it should first look in the
"hosts" file and if NOT found go ask the nameserver. So your "hosts"
file should have something like this:

127.0.0.1      localhost                       localhost.localdomain
EXTERNAL_IP    your.external.domain.name.com   its_external_shortname
INTERNALIP     your.internal.domain.name.com   its_internal_short_name


You could off course specify a few more machines in there to make 
local lookups quicker.

With local I mean "any process running on the machine requesting a lookup".



jobst






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