; $Id: named.boot,v 1.5 1997/02/23 09:21:09 peter Exp $ ; From: @(#)named.boot 5.1 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 ; Refer to the named(8) man page for details. If you are ever going ; to setup a primary server, make sure you've understood the hairy ; details of how DNS is working. Even with simple mistakes, you can ; break connectivity for affected parties, or cause huge amount of ; useless Internet traffic. ; ; Setting up secondaries is way easier and the rough picture for this ; is explained below. ; ; If you enable a local name server, don't forget to enter 127.0.0.1 ; into your /etc/resolv.conf so this server will be queried first. ; Also, make sure to enable it in /etc/rc.conf. ; example sortlist config: ; sortlist 127.0.0.0 directory /etc/namedb ; type domain source host/file backup file cache . named.root primary 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA localhost.rev ; NB: Do not use the IP addresses below, they are faked, and only ; serve demonstration/documentation purposes! ; ; Example secondary config entries. It can be convenient to become ; a secondary at least for the zone where your own domain is in. Ask ; your network administrator for the IP address of the responsible ; primary. ; ; Never forget to include the reverse lookup (IN-ADDR.ARPA) zone! ; (This is the first bytes of the respective IP address, in reverse ; order, with ".IN-ADDR.ARPA" appended.) ; ; Before starting to setup a primary zone, better make sure you fully ; understand how DNS and BIND works, however. There are sometimes ; unobvious pitfalls. Setting up a secondary is comparably simpler. ; ; NB: Don't blindly enable the examples below. :-) Use actual names ; and addresses instead. ; ;type zone name IP of primary backup file name ;================================================================== ;secondary domain.com 192.168.1.1 domain.com.bak ;secondary 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa 192.168.1.1 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.bak ; ; ; If you've got a DNS server around at your upstream provider, enter ; its IP address here, and enable the line below. This will make you ; benefit from its cache, thus reduce overall DNS traffic in the Internet. ; ;forwarders 127.0.0.1 ; ; In addition to the "forwarders" clause, you can force your name ; server to never initiate queries of its own, but always ask its ; forwarders only, by enabling the following line: ; ;options forward-only