Re: [cobalt-users] New member - Name Server Question

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:27 PM 3/14/00 -0800, you wrote:

> > The RaQ is your primary nameserver?
> Yes.
>
> > Yet you still put in a secondary DNS record?
> >
> > Can you tell me why?
> Suppose ns2.foobar.com is my secondary. I put in a "secondary nameserver
> (NS)" record in via the GUI. (Not "Secondary nameserver.")

Now I understand.  You put in a second NS record, which points to another 
nameserver, which acts as a secondary for the domain.  I thought you meant 
you set up a sec. zone file, which would be useless on your primary 
server.  A lot of Cobalt users seem to make that mistake <frown>.

> if i don't ns2.foobar.com can't act as a secondary, right?

> (won't it be unable to do zone transfers? or is that unrelated?)

According to "DNS and Bind", the purpose of an NS record is to define a 
host that is authoritative for that particular class and domain.

Allowing or denying zone transfers is turned on by default, but can be 
limited in the /etc/named.conf file.  I know of very few people who do 
limit, although in practice, it's a "good thing".

> > Can you point to any documentation for this?


> No :)

Now that I understand what you're doing, you're right; no documentation 
needed <smile>.

Jeff
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