Re: bind9 and ipv6
i recall a fairly large isp, can't remember which one, running their
mailserver on a 486 DX.
cant remember what distro it was
could have even been a BSD but im not entirely sure
i dont see why you couldnt do it though
Tom
"if you want an image of the future, just picture a boot stamping on the
human face - forever"
George Orwell
----- Original Message -----
From: "nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: bind9 and ipv6
> Kevin Coyner said:
> >
>
> > named[2387]: IPv6 structures in kernel and user space do not match
> > named[2387]: IPv6 support is disabled
> > named[2387]: no IPv6 interfaces found
> >
> > I have the IPv6 module compiled in my kernel, and I'm using 2.2.20.
> >
> > Are these startup references to IPv6 simply safe to ignore?
>
> if you don't need BIND to listen on any IPv6 interfaces, or if your
> not using IPv6 at all then yes it should be safe to ignore, it's
> just telling you it can't find all the things it needs to support
> IPv6 so it won't use it, no harm done.
>
>
> >
> > One more question: I've set this up as a caching server. However, can
I
> > add a master zone for the machines in my LAN, even though I don't have a
> > FQDN? I read the following article ...
>
> you can do anything you want, nobody else in the world will know
> unless they go out of their way to query your name server. if you
> took say debian.org as your domain at home, that won't affect the
> 'real' debian.org since the "internet" has this domain "registered"
> to a few specific nameservers and other domain name servers know to
> query those registered servers to recieve data for that domain.
>
> for a while on my network I had a domain named 'aphro'. Just plain
> old aphro, no aphro.com no aphro.org just aphro. my gateway was
> gateway.aphro, my desktop was aphro.aphro . about a year ago I decided
> to duplicate aphroland.org(my main domain) on my internal network, so
> I actually have 2 copies of this domain(if I add a new host I have
> to add it in 2 files and restart 2 copies of bind). So my internal
> domain names work fine internally but do not resolve externally.
>
> For a bit more security, if your planning on running BIND on your
> gateway/firewall machine I would reccomend you firewall it as well
> as have it only listen on your internal interface(s). Theres no real
> reason to provide the world access to your nameserver if your not
> serving authoratative data to anyone. I am not sure how this is
> done in BIND v9, I have only used BIND v8. Also I reccomend of course
> running BIND as a non-root uid/gid and in chroot(). This may require
> some additional setup especially for the chroot().
>
> nate
>
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