Search Again: Re: A couple questions From: Ron Smith Date: Thursday, September 18, 2003 Time: 5:00:21 pm On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 07:06 PM, Dan Farmer wrote: > you can download source for the latest BIND (which already includes > the new delegation-only zone type which fixes the verisign lunacy) > from the following page, or directly from the ftp link: > > http://isc.org/products/BIND/bind9-beta.html > ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.2.3rc2/bind-9.2.3rc2.tar.gz > > If you are running QuickDNS 4.5.1 you probably installed BIND 8.3.6, > which came with it. A quick 'named -v' will tell you. Mine is 8.3.4. Is there any reason to upgrade to 8.3.6 that you can think of? (Using the Men and Mice Mac OS X installer). I assume that 9 will be part of Panther, correct? > > For the delegation-only zones, you'll add an entry like such: > > zone "cc" { > type delegation-only; > }; > > You can download a this file: > http://www.clubneon.com/files/named.delegation-only > and include it in named.conf to make all current gTLD's behave > properly. But as Men and Mice pointed out, you can't yet use this with > QuickDNS. QuickDNS will try to startup, and will exit with this error > to your system.log file: (if you try, as I obviously did) > > Sep 18 10:59:20 Dan-Farmer QuickDNS Remote[15445]: Unknown type for > zone "com" - bailing out. > Sep 18 10:59:20 Dan-Farmer QuickDNS Remote[15445]: Unable to read > configuration. > > Dan Farmer > Phone Directories Company, Inc. > > On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 04:35 PM, 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? >> >> 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)? > > > 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