[SunHELP] help: HOWTO set up an DNS-Root-Server?

[Edward Chase]

You don't need to setup a root server in the true meaning of the root servers.

You just need to setup a normal dns server.  The only thing is that your 
going to want to stop it from trying to resolve hosts not within your 
network.  If for some reason someone was to attempt to resolve www.sun.com 
or whatever, you'll want an immediate error back.  Not have the local dns 
server spend some time trying to get an answer from the real root servers.

That might mean running bind, for this example, with an emply root.named 
file.  I've not tried this so YMMV.  I'm sure that if this is incorrect 
that someone will be along soon that knows better.

Good luck.


At 01:36 PM 3/21/2002 +0100, Jens Hamann wrote:
>Hello,
>
>There are no problems with setting up an normal dns-server, which
>contacts one of the 16 root-dns-servers. Now i want to set up a small
>LAN with no connection to the internet and I want to set up DNS.
>Therefore I need  root-DNS-server in the LAN.
>
>Does anybody know where to get a HOWTO?

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