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Re: [cobalt-users] Configuring 2nd Raq for doing secondary DNS



"Rodolfo J. Paiz (E-mail)" wrote:

> * Why would you need a file "directoryofchoice/zone.com" in your
> secondary?

Because the named dameon (bind) needs to know in what file to write the
zone information, and where to put that file.

> * Shouldn't you tell it what kind of zone it is (even though IN is
> assumed)?

No.  "IN" is a record type.  Record types are mixed in zones.  A zone is
NOT for any specific record type.

> On my RH-7 boxen, I have:
> 
> zone "zone.com" {
>         type slave;
>         masters { 111.222.333.444; };
> };

Did you put that in yourself?  My RH7 installation has nothing like
that.  According to "DNS and Bind" (O'Reilly), the file line is
required.

Jeff
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