eg
wstation1.office1.mydoman.com
wstation2.office1.mydoman.com
wstation3.office1.mydoman.com
mail.office1.mydoman.com
wstation1.office3.mydoman.com
wstation2.office3.mydoman.com
wstation3.office3.mydoman.com
mail.office3.mydoman.com
wstation1.mydoman.com
wstation2.mydoman.com
wstation3.mydoman.com
mail.mydoman.com
> >
> >
> > site 1 --- dialup-ppp ---> site 2
> > site 2 ---- isdn -->inet
> > site 3 --- dialup-ppp ---> site 2
> >
> > I have my domanin name now and have been trying to set it up on all sites,
> > all works ok at site 2 , the remote sites are ok when logged on and
> > using my nameserver at site 2 but when they are not they crash and burn
> > with not seeing the name server, I'd realy like to be able to set a couple
> > of sub domains up but am not sure where/how to start.
>
> subdomains aren't really the issue here, although you may wish to use
> them for other reasons.
>
> If you want the remote sites to be able to perform DNS lookups for
> your domain when their PPP link is down, you should run named at the
> remote sites.
>
> The typical configuration would be to have them act as secondary
> nameservers for the domain, with e.g.
>
> zone "yourdomain.com" {
> type slave;
> file "yourdomain";
> masters { x.x.x.x; };
> };
>
> where x.x.x.x is the IP address of the primary nameserver. It would
> also make sense to forward other queries to that nameserver, with
>
> options {
> forwarders { x.x.x.x; };
> };
>
> --
> Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
>
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