Articles tagged with dns

1. DNS Root Server IP Address Change

   Posted on November 02, 2007 in System Administration

   This is just a quick note for you DNS operators out there.

   Mark Andrews of ISC has notified the bind-announce mailing list that L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET has changed it's ip address to 199.7.83.42. Mark's suggested method for updating your BIND hints file is as follows:

   $ dig ns …

2. Using Forwarders in BIND Name Servers

   Posted on August 14, 2007 in System Administration

   You may run into a case where you are running a name server (perhaps a caching-only name server) that is not allowed to communicate with Internet name servers. The most common case for this is a local caching name server being blocked by a corporate or <acronym title="Internet Service …

3. Creating an OS X Startup Item For BIND

   Posted on May 31, 2007 in System Administration

   This information is really geared for pre-Tiger versions of OS X. In OS X 10.4 (Tiger), the BIND daemon is controlled by launchd and is pre-configured (although disabled). BIND Startup in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) has more detailed information. Although outdated, this article still includes useful information …