Re: [cobalt-developers] DNS setup trick, legitimate ??

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 28 April 2002 03:06 pm, jale@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I just found a quick way to set up DNS (at least quicker than I had been
> doing). Anyone see anything wrong with this that I should consider?
>
> I use 27 bit mask on my reverse address lookup (this makes me change each
> entry from the default of 24, very time consuming).
>
> Old way:
> Create A Record, select Auto Create Reverse lookup.
> Save
> Modify Reverse Lookup record to change to 27 bit mask
>
> New way:
> Create Reverse Lookup (PTR) record. Select 27 bit on the drop-down menu,
> select Auto Create A Record.
> Save
>
> This saves me the step of modifying the Reverse entry each time. Am I just
> slow to have discovered this? Any reason to not do it this way?
>
> I bought a RAQ3, read a few pages of documentation, and set it up. I don't
> experiment too much with my great running server :)


Thats OK,
But if you want FAST
do it manually
Just copy /etc/named/pri.existing.tld  /etc/named/pri.new.tld
edit it a little
then issue
reload ndc


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