[conspire] yet another non related question

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ehud Kaldor (ehud.kaldor at gmail.com):

> no, what i meat was "Plenty of other Linux folk will be your secondaries if
> you'll be their secondaries" - is there a list for that?

Probably not.

> what does it mean being my secondary?

It means, e.g., your nameserver doing authoritative DNS for my domain,
as a favour among people who know how to run nameservers, and who have
that software running on long-term-stable machines on static IPs.

> how do i get to be a primary? 

1.  Get static IP.
2.  Install nameserver software capable of doing authoritative service.
3.  Have it be made authoritative for one or more domain.
4.  Arrange for other authoritative nameservers to be slave (secondary)
    for that domain, treating yours as master (primary).

If your problem is that you have no idea how to run a nameserver, I am
not going to teach you DNS administration in the next five minutes.

As it happens, in effect, nobody taught me.  I did buy a copy of Cricket
Liu's really awful O'Reilly book, but essentially I just set up BIND and
figured it out.  Example configuration files and zonefiles from Richard
Couture (imat.com, The CoffeeNet) helped more than Liu's book ever did,
and I've attempted to pass on that tradition via my own set:
http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/network/bind9-examples-linuxmafia.tar.gz

Also of possible interest:
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/basics-of-dns.html
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html