the db.127.0.0 file is a loan SOA record with the loopback address and a PTR to localhost.
Please note that the periods *are important* at the end of the names. The above isn't complete
and would take pages to explain. If you need a good reference on DNS I recommend:
DNS and BIND
by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu
It's an O'reilly & Assoc. book
Oh, the named.boot file for a secondary server is slightly different in that you should substutute "secondary" for "primary" EXCEPT FOR the loopback address.
>
>and named.ca contains:
>
>> deneb.dur.ac.uk 86400 IN A 129.234.4.41
>> dns2.dur.ac.uk 86400 IN CNAME hermes.dur.ac.uk
>> dur.ac.uk 120 IN MX 9 hermes.dur.ac.uk
>> durham.ac.uk 120 IN MX 9 hermes.dur.ac.uk
>> ...
>
>Ok? So whay doesn't the blasted thing work? When I setup my resolve.conf to
>point to my machine:
>
>> nameserver 129.234.202.104
>> domain dur.ac.uk
>
>Any pointers appreciated.
>
>Nigel.
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