Re: [9fans] Authoritative Name Server

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>]

> The secondary name servers all run BIND on UNIX, and I need
> to do zone transfers to them, from Plan 9. Will simple zone
> transfers (given the -n flag to ndb/dns) suffice, or does the
> outgoing ndb file somehow need to be reformatted for BIND?

looks like it should work.  if you should need an bind-comptable
zone file (and i do), contrib quanstro/ndbtozone is a program that
converts ndb format to dns format.  it tosses out-of-balliwick stuff
and ndb tuples that have no bearing on dns.

> If I have subdomains for the domain I'm managing, do those
> subdomains get their own dom=... blocks? If so, do I need to
> specify soa=, dnsslave=, ns=, etc. for each subdomain entry,
> or will the specifications for the main domain satisfy?

this depends entirely if you want to have the subdomains
as seperate zones or not.  dns is really wierd.  imagine if
you could have "/" in a file name.  then x/y could be either
the directory x containing file y or just the file named x/y.
replace "/" with "." and that's how dns zones work.

i wouldn't bother breaking up the zones if there's no
particular adminstative reason to do so.

- erik