Search Again: Re: A couple questions From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, September 18, 2003 Time: 3:46:04 pm At 6:35 PM -0400 9/18/03, Ron Smith wrote: >How do update BIND (I think I have 8.3.4 )? Will that be a part of >4.6 or 4.5.1? Good question. The new delegation-only zones are only available with a patched version of Bind 9. But Mac OS X 10.2.x and under, as well as QuickDNS 4.5.1 and earlier, use Bind 8. Solutions: QuickDNS 4.6 will include Bind 9.2.x. We will probably include the patched version. The installer will make the necessary changes to the configuration files to accommodate this change of Bind major version. Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) will also include Bind 9.x. It will also probably stomp on the QuickDNS configuration files, much as the Jaguar update did. No word yet from Apple whether they'll include the patched version, but it seems likely that they will. You can also download, compile, and install the Bind 9.2.2 source code and the P1 patch. (Patch the source code, then compile 9.2.2P1, then very carefully install the necessary components.) >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)? Yes. The patch is generic. It is not specific to the two wildcards created by Verisign. You will need to manually create delegation-only "zones" (even though they're not really zones) in the file user_after (which on Mac OS X is located in /var/named/conf/). ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy >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

Messages In This Thread: A couple questions by Dan Farmer on Sep 18, 2003 at 2:00:04 pm Re: A couple questions by Men & Mice Support on Sep 18, 2003 at 2:49:19 pm Re: A couple questions by Ron Smith on Sep 18, 2003 at 3:37:05 pm Re: A couple questions by Men & Mice Support on Sep 18, 2003 at 3:46:04 pm Re: A couple questions by Dan Farmer on Sep 18, 2003 at 4:08:02 pm Re: A couple questions by Ron Smith on Sep 18, 2003 at 5:00:21 pm Re: A couple questions by Len Conrad on Sep 18, 2003 at 9:34:46 pm Re: A couple questions by Men & Mice Support on Sep 19, 2003 at 8:04:10 am Re: A couple questions by Men & Mice Support on Sep 19, 2003 at 8:08:31 am Re: A couple questions by Men & Mice Support on Sep 19, 2003 at 8:13:17 am Re: A couple questions by Len Conrad on Sep 19, 2003 at 8:33:44 am