[conspire] DNS zonefile SOA detals, and addressing the public

[Ruben Safir]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 12:54:18PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> 
> > Which is the tutorial I was pouring over... actually, it has been around
> > fore a long time, if I recall.
> 
> That book looks proetty good, though I've not read it in detail.
> 
> I actually mostly learned by doing (and by studying and adapting Richard
> Couture's example BIND files, which produced the files I now publish for
> the same purpose).  Although I have a copy of Cricket Liu's book _DNS
> and BIND_, I found it in general shockingly useless, almost as useless
> as the bat book about Sendmail.


It explained how DNS works adequately.  It was useless to confusion on
BIND set up details.  Was I using Bind 4 back then?

> 
> > You didn't want me to be secondary?  I thought that was the deal.
> 
> Very nice of you to offer, seriously.  However, I already have five
> authoritative servers for my two domains, linuxmafia.com and
> unixmercenary.net .  So, I'll pass on the kind offer at this point.
> (The RFC recommendation is minimum 3, maximum 7 per domain.)
> 
> 

what!  I thought you needed NYLUGs help to keep it all running.  Silly
me.