If you can contact the root servers, and get a root hints file, you should be able to get dns info for other domains just fine (assuming your bind is setup correctly). One more thing I forgot to mention is to make sure your SOA record has the correct info. To answer your question, your machine may have a different name in dns from the one you see at the shell prompt. For example, my server is linserver.romuald.net.eu.org, but I could have just as easily defined it as ns1.romuald.net.eu.org in my zone file. One more thing, there is no technical problem as far as I know in having your nameserver have the name of your domain. Yes, kind of strange, but it should work. I don't know how you would take care of things during the name change, but maybe someone more knowledgable will come on here and enlighten us both. Greg On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 08:14:42PM -0400, Scott Howell wrote: > I wonder in the short term if there is a way to account for both machine > names so I'll not get bit in the process of changing names. I think the > mistake is naming the machine the same name as the domain. I guess > there's no point in naming your box example if your domain is > example.com being as it'll show up as example.example.com which seems > silly in any case.<grin> > I didn't think of this when I started. What is interesting though is why > it wouldn't do lookups beyond my own domain. That I think bothers me > more being as if it would have done lookups at least I couldn't have > worked with the situation. I obviously dont' know dns as well as I'd > like, but perhaps this could have something to do with the reverse > lookups? Seems as long as my dns server can contact a root server it > should still produce dns results. > I guess this is also punishment for not keeping my old box updated. Most > the software on it is from Slackware 7.1 and its worked well enough. My > mistake was trying to build a Debian box and I've not had to concern > myself with setting up Debian as a server or firewall box so I imagine > perhaps there's some differences or unique aspecs I overlooked, but > didn't think so. > > tnx > > Actually one other interesting point is that ns1.lrxms.net resolves back > to lrxms.lrxms.net per the zone file. I didn't think because ns1 was > another name for the primary dns server, would it matter what the > machine's real name is. > > tnx >
