RE: DNS setup question

["Glen S Mehn" <glen@transecure.com>]

If you set up your DNS server correctly with the IPs that you want, and tell
it that it's the SOA record for animedia.com, then it'll point itself and
any 'puters that point to it as primary DNS to the IP address, regardless of
the root servers. It's a good way to test your DNS setup.

You can also use interactive nslookup. If you just type nslookup without any
arguments, you'll get a prompt:

>

then you can say nameserver <servername or IP>

and it'll lookup stuff through that nameserver. It's also a good way to
debug stuff.

Adding the nameserver is as simple as adding a line to your
/etc/bind/named.conf and setting up the zone file for it. The BIND-HOWTO has
answers on this one.

Regards,

Glen


-----Original Message-----
From: Alec Smith [mailto:alec@shadowstar.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 2:12 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: DNS setup question


Right now I've got my Debian-based server acting as a DNS cache. I'm in the
process of moving a domain from one hosting company to another, and I'd
like to be able to test things as if this domain was pointed at the new
server instead of the old. I'm not quite ready to update the domain records
with InterNIC though.


Is there some way I can make my local DNS server report back to me that
amimedia.com is 209.68.1.210 instead of the old IP, but without having to
change things for the rest of the world? I'm not a Bind whiz, so pointers
are much appreciated.

I don't want to drop the DNS cache since it speeds things up most of the
time. Eventually I'd like to add DNS to another LAN I run, so I'd like to
use this as a chance to start learning how to configure Bind as opposed to
just adding another entry for DNS caching (to point at Pair Network's DNS
for the new amimedia.com IP).


Alec Smith