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Re: A couple questions

From: Ron Smith
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2003
Time: 3:37:05 pm

How do update BIND (I think I have 8.3.4 )? Will that be a part of 4.6
or 4.5.1?

Also, will there be a way to configure the DNS so that we can stop the
same Verisign lunacy with the .cc domain (I think there are others also
that use wildcard domains)?


On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 05:46 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote:

> We will be releasing an update to version 4.5.1, as well as a new
> version of 4.6.
>
> Configuring a delegation-only zone will require manual effort on each
> server - there will be no user interface for this in QuickDNS Manager.
> The update will simply allow the use of such zones without breaking
> QuickDNS.
>
>> Also, I can't find any references to the BIND 9 feature 'view' in the
>> QuickDNS documentation or FAQ's. Are they supported (am I missing
>> something) or if not, how do you manage different zone information
>> for internal/external hosts? I have 2 QuickDNS servers - one serving
>> internal zones and one serving external zones, and I'd like to get
>> some redundancy by having them both serve internal and external zones
>> based on who is requesting the information. When I try to make 2
>> copies of the same zone for this purpose I get nothing but errors.
>
> Views are not supported by QuickDNS. They're very complicated,
> potentially requiring a new user interface paradigm, and we haven't
> had much in the way of requests for this feature. Therefore, it's been
> given a low priority.
>

Kindest regards,

Ron

"What shall we do? What shall we do?" he cried, "Escaping goblins to be
caught by wolves!" - Bilbo Baggins

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein




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