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| ====== BALUG DNS ====== | ====== BALUG DNS ====== | ||
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| + | **NOTE THAT MOST ALL OF THE DNS INFORMATION ON THIS WIKI PAGE IS HIGHLY OUT-OF-DATE AND MOSTLY ONLY OF HISTORICAL INTEREST. | ||
| + | IT MOSTLY HARKENS BACK TO A TIME WHEN MULTIPLE DISTINCT DNS SERVERS WERE RUNNING ON THE SAME HOST, TO SERVER SEPARATE NEEDS OF | ||
| + | VARIOUS [L]UGs, E.G. BALUG, "vs." SF-LUG, etc.** | ||
| The care and feeding of the **BALUG DNS** server. | The care and feeding of the **BALUG DNS** server. | ||
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| *in general, only superuser (UID 0, a.k.a. "root") should be able to alter BALUG DNS files (most notably master zone files). The BALUG DNS (running in chroot environment, with user and group balugdns) should mostly only be able to alter the few exception files (or contents of directories needed to support such), noted above (e.g. PID files, etc.). | *in general, only superuser (UID 0, a.k.a. "root") should be able to alter BALUG DNS files (most notably master zone files). The BALUG DNS (running in chroot environment, with user and group balugdns) should mostly only be able to alter the few exception files (or contents of directories needed to support such), noted above (e.g. PID files, etc.). | ||
| ***THE PRIMARY PURPOSE FOR THE BALUG DNS SERVER** is for serving DNS zones of interest to BALUG and/or any other such hosting BALUG deems appropriate or wishes to do for folks/organizations (e.g. reciprocal or hosted slave services, etc.) | ***THE PRIMARY PURPOSE FOR THE BALUG DNS SERVER** is for serving DNS zones of interest to BALUG and/or any other such hosting BALUG deems appropriate or wishes to do for folks/organizations (e.g. reciprocal or hosted slave services, etc.) | ||
| + | *Note that version control (RCS) has been put in place for at least a few key files, it should be appropriately used to track changes and note the reason(s) //why// change(s) were made. It is also generally advisable to preserve mtimes, e.g.:\\ # ci -d -l -M file | ||
| ===== THE STATE OF BALUG.ORG. DNS ===== | ===== THE STATE OF BALUG.ORG. DNS ===== | ||
| - | **AT LEAST AT THE PRESENT TIME (2007-05-26), PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING**: | + | **AT LEAST AT THE PRESENT TIME (2007-05-28), PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING**: |
| - | *Internet DNS has not yet been delegated to this DNS server | + | *At least **some Internet DNS //has// been delegated to this DNS server** (but not yet balug.org.) |
| *This is subject to change - most current information can probably be found by: | *This is subject to change - most current information can probably be found by: | ||
| *having a look at file:/var/named/chroot-balug/var/named/master/balug.org | *having a look at file:/var/named/chroot-balug/var/named/master/balug.org | ||
| *or of course, making the appropriate Internet DNS queries | *or of course, making the appropriate Internet DNS queries | ||
| *as of 2007-05-26 this host //should// have complete balug.org. zone data (can't do a zone transfer, but as of 2007-05-26 at least Michael Paoli and Jim Stockford should have the access to review what should be all the data that's in the delegated balug.org. DNS), hence the zone data on this host //should// be complete (with some additional bits of data such as SOA and TTLs determined via responses to DNS queries); it is //possible// (but unlikely at this point) that some zone data may be missing. | *as of 2007-05-26 this host //should// have complete balug.org. zone data (can't do a zone transfer, but as of 2007-05-26 at least Michael Paoli and Jim Stockford should have the access to review what should be all the data that's in the delegated balug.org. DNS), hence the zone data on this host //should// be complete (with some additional bits of data such as SOA and TTLs determined via responses to DNS queries); it is //possible// (but unlikely at this point) that some zone data may be missing. | ||
| + | *the various configuration and zone files contain much more relevant detail, including what's noted in the comments. | ||
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