[MLB-WIRELESS] Testing DNS on the MW network...

David Nuttall wireless at smithsgully.net
Tue May 14 23:47:01 EST 2013


Hi Steve,

I have your zones slaved on my DNS at 10.10.80.34.

Seems to be working fine!  Nice Work!

Dave

On 14/05/2013 6:47 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
> I'm still in the process of getting this finalised.... however, as of 
> right now, some DNS should work on the MW network...
>
> If you run bind on a machine connected to the internet, you can add 
> the following config to your named.conf to have local copies of the 
> zone files.
>
> zone "mw.org.au" {
>         type slave;
>         file "/var/named/slaves/db.mw.org.au";
>         masters { 203.4.136.11; 202.127.210.36; 202.127.210.37; };
>     allow-transfer  { 0.0.0.0/0; };
> };
>
> zone "10.10.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type slave;
>         file "/var/named/slaves/10.10.in-addr.arpa";
>         masters { 203.4.136.11; 202.127.210.36; 202.127.210.37; };
>     allow-transfer  { 0.0.0.0/0; };
> };
>
> This may change, however as of right now, this works. You may need to 
> substitute the file to something that works for your configuration.
>
> If you don't use bind, then standby - as I'm sure there will be a 
> number of DNS servers on the network soon that can be queried...
>
> The servers at 202.127.210.36 and 202.127.210.36 are still in the 
> process of being configured - so give that a little while...
>
> The question now is - how can we distribute DNS correctly and still 
> allow it to people who do not run their own DNS server? Thoughts?
>



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