Problems with named default configuration in 6-STABLE

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Tuesday, 17. July 2007, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 09:20:16 Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > Yes - and this:
> >
> > zone "." {
> >         type slave;
> >         file "slave/root.slave";
> >         masters {
> >                 192.5.5.241;    // F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> >                 192.228.79.201; // B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> >                 192.33.4.12;    // C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> >                 192.112.36.4;   // G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> >                 193.0.14.129;   // K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> >         };
> >         notify no;
> > };
> >
> > prevents me from resolving hostnames in "my.domain". What I'm still
> > wondering though, is this an oversight or by design? I can't imagine
> > setups like mine are very rare. Doug?
>
> This is natural, unless you specifically enter the zones for 192.168.8.*
> (forward and reverse) in your client DNS server (as slave or forward zones,
> see the bind manual for the latter, which I'd recommend in your case).

Ah, I'm (re)-learning more about DNS here than I ever thought I would. Indeed, 
with forward and reverse slave zones, I don't need to comment out anything 
anymore from the default config. I guess that solves my problems and the list 
audience will be saved from yet more DNS talk. :)

Cheers,
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