Hi Steve,
you can configure bind acting as a slave, but telling your fc2-box to forward queries to external servers, if no
result is given by your zone.
so, your /etc/named.conf:
more named.conf
// generated by named-bootconf.pl
options {
directory "/var/named";
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
// query-source address * port 53;
notify no;
forward first;
forwarders { ip-adress of a external dns-server1; ip-adress of a external dns-server2; } ;
};
this entry forwards queries to the forwarders, if no internal dns-server brings an appropriate answer......now,
indicate your slave-zone in /etc/named.conf, eg:
zone "your_zone" {
type slave;
file "/var/named/zonefile.hosts";
masters {
ip-adress-of-your-master-dns;
};
allow-transfer {
ip-adress-of-this-slave; { key rndckey; };
};
};
the option { key rndckey; }; has to be inserted, if your master-dns-server requires a password for the zone-download.
if your master-dns doesn't require this, you can remove this option. otherwise, you will find a file in /etc/ called
rndckey. insert the password in there. as i remember, by default w2k doesn't require one (but i can be wrong...) the
password should be encrypted.
if you've done this, make sure, /var/named has 775 to user and group named, otherwise, the update will fail.
HTH, let me know whether it's what you need.
Roger
