From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Edstrom Subject: Re: Setting up DNS without domain Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 01:07:07 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030812230707.GA1174@linux> References: <20030812223545.GA1046@linux> <5.1.0.14.1.20030812155116.030d0b88@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20030812155116.030d0b88@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:59:51PM -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote: > No, you can run BIND (named) without your own domain, just to resolve > offsite FQNs that your local hosts need to resolve. Just run it and provide > only the file that identifies root server (on my Debian system, > /etc/bind/db.root). You do this by configuring named.conf to provide only > that db file (as a "hint"), probably something like this: > > // prime the server with knowledge of the root servers > zone "." { > type hint; > file "/etc/bind/db.root"; > }; > > If you have a significant number of hosts on your LAN, you might want to > make this instance of BIND locally (on-LAN only) authoritative for a dummy > domain that the hosts can use to find each other. (That's what I do here, > for example.) In that case, the stuff you've seen about using BIND with > real (registered) domains should guide you. > > >Another question: Do you recommend chrooting BIND? > > I offer no recommendation, but I do not do so myself. Thanks for the quick reply, Ray! I will try that ASAP. /Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs