Re: [cobalt-users] Re:[Qube2]Setting up as a Secondary DNS Server?

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Hoaggs wrote:

> Nov 12 3:12:14 ns2 named[16860]: sysquery: sendto([192.112.36.4].53):
> Network is unreachable
> I believe the network is unreachable since we are on an Intranet and
> can't find the 192.112.36.4 Internet root server.

Of course you can't find a server on the Internet if you're not
connected to the Internet.

What do you use DNS for?  For Intranet only lookups for clients only on
the Intranet?  Or for Internet lookups for clients on the Intranet, or
for Intranet only lookups for clients on the Internet, or for Internet
lookups for clients on the Internet?

If you're using your DNS server only for Intranet servers and Intranet
clients, then you should remove the "." zone completely.  If you're
serving either Internet clients but only Intranet servers, you don't
need it either, but in that case you should probably replace it with
your own, for consistency's sake.  You only need it if you're allowing
people to use your server to look up Internet servers, and in that case
you need to have a route to the Internet through your firewall; there's
just no way around it.

Jeff
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