I believe the secondaries can take over as master if the master is down. Thus he is setting up a secondary.
The first thing I would do is find out why the two computers you have now "freeze up". Is there a certain job that bogs the system down? A sync? I would watch the logs, because two DNS servers should be more than enough for most corporations, ISPs, etc. As far as setting one up...I wish I knew myself. I haven't tried yet. > as far as i know, thats just not how it works. every dns asks above > itself for those that it's not resposeable for, and usually keeps the info > as soon as it knows another one though. > > anyone know how to setup your own stand alone dns server? like the ones > that most isps seem to have that take time for the info to filter down > from the root servers? > > -- > Forrest English > http://truffula.net > > "When we have nothing left to give > There will be no reason for us to live > But when we have nothing left to lose > You will have nothing left to use" > -Fugazi > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Debian Gonzalez wrote: > > > > > Maybe I'm mistaken ... but my understanding was that > > my DNS server would just pull information from the > > "Root Servers" or something. > > > > You see, currently, I have two DNS servers that > > resolve our requests and such. They're pretty fast > > and everything except that about three times per day > > they freeze up for about two-five minutes. During > > that time, no one in my office can look at websites > > properly. > > > > I don't want to be in a position where the big DNS > > servers are down and someone looks up a brand-new > > non-cached site from my little DNS server. Since my > > little one doesn't know where the new site is ... it'd > > have to refer to the big ones ... which would both me > > down. > > > > Does this make any sense? > > > > -Christian > > > > > > > > > > --- Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you need to setup some other dns servers for yours > > > to reffer to if they > > > don't have the info. what you want to do is called > > > a cahching dns server > > > for a reason. it keeps places already visited in a > > > local cache. but, > > > you don't have a record of all of the sites on the > > > entire internet right > > > away. > > > > > > so, follow the howto as best as you can. but, at > > > the very least.... add > > > some other dns's that you reffer to. it's in um... > > > named.conf or > > > somthing like that in /etc/bind > > > > > > -- > > > Forrest English > > > http://truffula.net > > > > > > "When we have nothing left to give > > > There will be no reason for us to live > > > But when we have nothing left to lose > > > You will have nothing left to use" > > > -Fugazi > > > > > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I found an easy document on the homepage of > > > RedHat. Search there for > > > > it. If you want to take a look at my files (which > > > still do not work > > > > perfectly for every computer on the world), mail > > > me privately. It is > > > > really simple to set up a simple server. > > > > > > > > Greetzm > > > > Sebastiaan > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Debian Gonzalez wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello everybody ... I want to set up a DNS > > > server for > > > > > users in my office. I've looked at all the > > > HOWTOs out > > > > > there and I couldn't make sense of them. Let me > > > > > explain what I want to set up. > > > > > > > > > > You know like in Windows (or /etc/resolv.conf > > > for us) > > > > > when you specify a "Primary DNS Server" ... like > > > so > > > > > that when you type in www.yahoo.com the proper > > > page > > > > > comes up? I want to set up one of those types > > > of > > > > > machines. I believe such a server is called a > > > > > "resolver" or a "resolving and caching server" > > > or > > > > > something ... please correct me if I'm wrong, > > > please. > > > > > > > > > > So, I used dselect to install bind and bind-doc > > > and > > > > > stuff ... that was with Progeny. It didn't work > > > and I > > > > > was tired of the way the machine was working so > > > I just > > > > > set up Potato and had it set up the machine as a > > > "DNS > > > > > Server" (a setup option). > > > > > > > > > > "ps -le | more" (also "ps -le | grep named") > > > show me > > > > > that named is up and running. > > > > > > > > > > If I put 127.0.0.1 alone in my /etc/resolv.conf, > > > lynx > > > > > will not be able to go to http://www.google.com > > > (with > > > > > a known, working DNS server it works just fine, > > > though > > > > > ... I know this machine can get on a network and > > > > > everything). Also, when I specify the IP of this > > > > > machine (192.168.10.249) as my "Primary DNS > > > Server" in > > > > > Win2k, it won't go to any webpages either. > > > > > > > > > > Now, I know, this is a right-out-of-the-box > > > setup of > > > > > bind, but I can't figure out what I need to > > > configure. > > > > > Like what files do I need to configure to make > > > this > > > > > work? Maybe the root servers or something in > > > db.root > > > > > are out of date? I have no idea and it's gotten > > > > > pretty frustrating after a week or so. > > > > > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated, folks. Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > Please CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > -Christian > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > > > > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? > > > Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Mike Wills [EMAIL PROTECTED]
