At 09:11 AM 2/27/00 +0000, you wrote:
DNS SOA records do require to have more than ONE NS pointer record.on all Cobalt products there is no way to add the second NS pointer record You can only add an A record which creates the SOA with only ONE NS pointer record. so with Bind 8.2 how does the DNS server inform its secondaries there has been an update . Well is cant because the SOA does not know about any other NS's in the domain
Slight terminology problem, Barry. The SOA record start at "titmarsh" and ends at the ")". The NS records (and yes, you need more than one for robust name service) are called NS records. I've got a light problem with you calling anything but PTR a pointer record; it makes things more confusing to me <wry grin>.
And the whole thing (which I think is what you mean when you refer to a DNS SOA record) is called a zone file.
This needs to be fixed fast please else as an ISP I cannot use Cobalt boxes as DNS's as a result of this I have to withdraw 10 boxes from service and go back to my Old systems
And it's pretty easy to use the RaQs for DNS even though they have this problem. Just don't use the gui interface.
We've been doing that quite successfully. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>