topic Primary DNS in Operating System - HP-UX

Primary DNS

castro_2 — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:24:42 GMT

Im looking information about Configuration Primary DNS on Hp-UX 11.00
Thanks

Re: Primary DNS

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:33:23 GMT

Hi:

Have a look a chapter-3 ("Configuring and Administering the BIND Name Service") in "Installing and Administering Internet Services":

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/B2355-90685.html

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Primary DNS

erics_1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:35:47 GMT

Castro,

Try the following documents from TKB:

UDNSKBRC00007658
HONCIKKBRC00000042

Hope This Helps!
Eric

Re: Primary DNS

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:36:00 GMT

In addition to JRF's reference, I wouldn't even dream of doing this without a copy of O'reilly's 'DNS and BIND' on my desk.

Re: Primary DNS

Arockia Jegan — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:37:39 GMT

Have a look at this forum...

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x93787d4cf554d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Re: Primary DNS

Tony Romero — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:14:57 GMT

Keep in mind that BIND 9.x does not support multiple CNAMES. Therefore if you are migrating from 8.x zone files, which contain multiple CNAMES the named daemon would detect the multiple CNAMES and give you a bunch of problems.

Re: Primary DNS

Jeff Schussele — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:53:40 GMT

Hi Castro,

As Clay's stated, Cricket Liu's DNS & BIND is THE definitive tome on the subject. And not only is it a fine piece of work but so is the author. I've had the privilege of working w/him on several occasions & can attest to the fact that he is an expert at not only DNS/BIND, but with SMTP as well. He even takes great pride & pains in responding to reader's mail that he receives or O'Reilly fwds to him.

Now, if you are asking how a primary DNS server is designated on a client HP-UX server, then that would be the first server statement in the /etc/resolv.conf file - which normally looks as follows:

domain subnet.company.com
search subnet.company.com subnet2.company.com
server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Note that the servers are searched in order - top down.
Also involved would be the /etc/nsswitch.conf file which defines the order of search methods & the host entry would look something like
hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: Primary DNS

Bill Thorsteinson — Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:57:59 GMT

Try the Linux Documentation Projects
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html

I haven't been throught the
latest version but I have
always found the information
portable.

Re: Primary DNS

Fred Martin_1 — Fri, 14 Jun 2002 12:04:28 GMT

Have a look at my thread, from when I set it up:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x5ccde7726eccd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html