Re: [cobalt-users] Secondary DNS on RedHat Linux 7.2

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve West wrote:

> I'm trying to use a RedHat Linux 7.2 server as secondary dns for a Raq3 box
> which is currently doing primary and secondary dns. Can someone help with
> how I can do this?

I'll let you know as soon as Red Hat releases their 7.2 product
<smile>.  Please let me know if you'll loan me your time machine <smile,
again>.

> I'm a novice linux user so if this question is very dump,
> excuse me posting it here!

Not dumb at all, but it doesn't belong here.

> But I'm hoping someone has done this and can direct me to a how-to manual on
> setting up secondary dns using the cobalt primary dns information.

Sure have.  You don't have to do anything on your Cobalt box (unless
you've put in secondary records, in which case you can delete them, but
you shouldn't have put them in anyway.

Then you configure Bind to do secondary DNS for those domains on the Red
Hat server.

Lots of documentation all over the 'net, though I heartily recommend the
book "Linux DNS Server Administration", Craig Hunt, Sybex.  You can buy
it from Amazon.

Here's what an entry in /etc/named.config should look like:

zone "domain.com" in {
 type slave;
 file "sec.domain.com";
 masters { 123.123.123.123; };
};

...where "domain.com" is the domain name (and yes it does belong in
quotes) for which you're doing secondary, "sec.domain.com" (which again,
does belong in quotes) is the filename in which you want the slave
server to hold the information, and 123.123.123 is the IP# of the RaQ
from which you want to get the data.

Don't forget to restart the named daemon after you do it.  I'll leave
that exercise to you; if you don't know how, start reading your Red Hat
Linux 7.2 books (as soon as they're published) and any administration
material you can get your hands on; you really do have to know how to
use linux before you start.

Jeff
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