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[Waqas Ashraf <waqas281 AT gmail.com>]

I could give you a rough guideline the way I did mine and you can improve on 
it and put in nicer word? 

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On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

> Someone would have to write that up, or at least give me a rough
> guideline to how they set it up.  I haven't run Windows in over 6 years,
> but I could load it up on a VM to fill in the details.
> 
> 
> On 01/08/2013 09:54 AM, Waqas Ashraf wrote:
>> Oh please do rewrite that page and also if you could please add BIND on 
>> windows setup as well on that list. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes, if you are just using a hints file, then I believe you are correct
>>> that you only need the list of nameservers in the file.  However while
>>> reading through the thread, I had the impression that waqas was slaving
>>> the root zone, in which case you need the entire zone file.
>>> 
>>> Both methods are actually presented in the wiki docs, however there
>>> seems to be a lot of questions raised by that page.  I am considering
>>> doing a rewrite of that page to try and provide a clearer explanation of
>>> the various methods for configuring a server.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 01/08/2013 02:56 AM, Simon wrote:
>>>> On 01/08/13 00:31, Jeff Taylor wrote:
>>>>> Actually you were right the first time... You want to AXFR the root zone
>>>>> so you get a complete copy of it.  If you just query for NS records, you
>>>>> get a list of the accepted nameservers, but you don't have your own
>>>>> complete local copy of the zone.
>>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>> 
>>>> I think we're getting confused here. Let me explain my understanding and
>>>> I would appreciate it if you and others could comment if required.
>>>> 
>>>> To get a configuration similar to the standard ICANN setup with Bind but
>>>> using Opennic, you need to replace the standard root hints file with one
>>>> suitable for Opennic. The hints file is not supposed to contain a full
>>>> copy of the root zone, it is simply intended to provide enough
>>>> information (hints) to resolve the root zone directly from the root
>>>> servers. Therefore, adding this information to the root.hints file is
>>>> enough to get a basic nameserver working with Opennic. This information
>>>> can be obtained by using dig -t NS on the root ( . ) zone from one of
>>>> the Opennic nameservers.
>>>> 
>>>> However, if desired, we can take the configuration a step further and
>>>> add some zones to our config. If we decide to go this route, the minmum
>>>> we would add is this:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> zone "." {
>>>>               type slave;
>>>>               file "opennic/root.db";
>>>>               masters { 75.127.96.89; };
>>>>               allow-transfer { any; };
>>>>               notify no;
>>>> };
>>>> 
>>>> zone "opennic.glue" IN{
>>>>               type slave;
>>>>               file "opennic/glue.db";
>>>>               masters { 75.127.96.89; };
>>>>               allow-transfer { any; };
>>>>               notify no;
>>>> };
>>>> 
>>>> Generally, if you have gone this far, you would then continue with
>>>> adding slave statements for the TLD's, thus:
>>>> 
>>>> zone "geek" IN{
>>>>               type slave;
>>>>               file "opennic/geek.db";
>>>>               masters { 202.83.95.229; };
>>>>               allow-transfer { any; };
>>>>               notify no;
>>>> };
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ... and so on for the other TLDs.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Comments anyone?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Simon
>>>> 
>>>> 
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