North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: bind patches++ (Re: Wildcards)
Hello Paul , Am I correct in the understanding that the below tells me that 9.2.2p2 does NOT contain the ablility to do root-delegation-only ? Tia , JimL On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: > if you installed the first isc wildcard patch you probably want the second. > see www.isc.org/products/BIND/delegation-only.html for details. the first > patch didn't handle NS lookups (which don't occur in nature but it's sort of > unnerving when they don't work in "dig"). > in addition to the "type delegation-only" zones, the latest release candidate > has an additional "root-delegation-only" option. this looks like: > > options { > root-delegation-only exclude { "de"; "museum"; }; > }; > > thus the delegation-only behaviour becomes the default for the root domain, > and all tld's except those listed. DE has no wildcards but they do put > customer A RRs into the DE zone itself. MUSEUM has a wildcard but this was > part of their application and it was approved and has not been a problem. > f.6to4-servers.net is now running this if you want to try before you, um, buy. > thanks very much to the membership of the bind forum who make this possible. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | [email protected] | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
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