Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ogicse!decwrl!ucbvax!UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU!"Root From: "Root@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Name server problems Message-ID: <9009071138.AA01151@itnsg1.cineca.it> Date: 7 Sep 90 19:38:39 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Laboratorio di Fisica Computazionale I.N.F.M. Lines: 77 Hi to all, I have a problem related with my local nameserver configuration. I configured the machine as secondary server caching from the registered domain server, as follows -------- ; ; @(#)named.boot.slave 1.13 (Berkeley) 87/07/21 ; ; boot file for secondary name server ; Note that there should be one primary entry for each SOA record. ; ; sortlist 10.0.0.0 directory /usr/etc/named.d ; type domain source host/file backup file cache . root.cache secondary CINECA.IT 130.186.1.194 130.186.1.53 itnsg1.bak secondary 186.130.IN-ADDR.ARPA 130.186.1.194 130.186.1.53 itnsg1.rev.bak primary 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA loopback.rev forwarders 130.186.1.53 192.12.192.4 -------- ; ; loopback.rev -- PTR record for 127.1 (itnsg1.cineca.it) ; @ IN SOA itnsg1.cineca.it root.itnsg1.cineca.it ( 1.2 ; Serial 43200 ; Refresh 3 hours 3600 ; Retry 1 hour 360000 ; Expire 100 hours 86400 ) ; Minimum 24 hours itnsg1.cineca.it IN A 130.186.1.194 localhost.cineca.it. IN A 127.0.0.1 IN NS itnsg1.cineca.it ; 1 IN PTR localhost. -------- The defualt domain name is stored in /usr/etc/resolv.conf wich contains only one line: -------- domain cineca.it -------- Everything works well with this configuration, except for one thing. Our domain is very wide, in fact covering all the North-East side of Italy and we are a little university away from the central site. For strange administrative reasons we cannot act as a sub-domain. Frequently we need to connect local machines to the net for some time (demonstrations from vendors, tests and so on) and would like to tell our domain server (the local one) to recognize those machines without asking every time to the central site to put their names into the database. Putting the names in /etc/hosts won't help. So the question is the following: Is there any way to put local information in the local server database? Any hint is welcome. Thanks a lot in advance, - valter -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Valter V. Cavecchia | Bitnet: cavecchi@itncisca | | Centro di Fisica del C.N.R. | Internet: root@itnsg1.cineca.it | | I-38050 Povo (TN) - Italy | Decnet: itnvax::cavecchia (37.65) | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------