I’m running 10.4.4 Server. I want to run a DNS for a few reasons.
1) I buy a T1 from Wiltel. Their name server is flakey. I’d like to run a local DNS and point my client computers towards it so it can cache things up and act somewhat as a buffer to the Wiltel server. (Maybe this is a bogus reason?)
2) I don’t know how “most” providers do things. It seems that every time I switch providers, the reverse IP lookup is a problem. With Wiltel, they want my DNS server to server a slightly funny zone called 208.143.192.64.in-addr.arpa. Then I have entries like 209.208.143.192.64.in-addr.arpa., 210.208.143.192.64.in-addr.arpa., etc. Almost the usual reverse IP but with an extra sub level.
3) I can’t recall for sure but it seems like some other services depend upon having a local DNS. I may be mistaken about this.
My first problem is I do not actually really serve my domain names. dodaddy.com does. Perhaps I should change that. I’m open to suggestions. I was creating a “zone”. I just now tried it using a secondary zone instead of a zone. But I still have a stumbling block.
I need to add this to my named.conf file:
zone “208.143.192.64.in-addr.arpa” IN {
type master;
file “208.143.192.64.rev”;
allow-transfer { 64.200.241.28; 64.200.255.12; };
also-notify { 64.200.241.28; 64.200.255.12; };
};
The documentation says that I should be able to do this. But now, every time I muck with things in the Server Admin GUI, this stanza and the file get deleted.
I can’t get the GUI to accept creating a domain with this name.
Basically, I just find the GUI to be MUCH harder and more convoluted than the regular conf files. But, as we’ve seen, if I happen to do something with the GUI, it trashes the conf files. Plus, I’ve found that usually I have to understand the conf files, then figure out how to get the GUI to create the conf files like they should be. In short, the GUI is just an obsticle.
The 10.3? (or was it 10.2?) GUI did not harass me as much.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you,
Perry Smith
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